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001 2005047340
003 DLC
005 20070515170547.0
008 050317s2006 nyua b 001 0 eng
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050 00 $aHQ111$b.C68 2006
082 00 $a306.74/2/08621$222
245 04 $aThe courtesan's arts :$bcross-cultural perspectives /$cedited by Martha Feldman and Bonnie Gordon.
260 $aNew York :$bOxford University Press,$c2006.
300 $axxvii, 396 p. :$bill. ;$c24 cm +$e1 CD-ROM (4 3/4 in.).
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. 369-380) and index.
505 0 $aMaking a spectacle of her(self) : the Greek courtesan and the art of the present / James Davidson -- Cutting a good figure : the fashions of Venetian courtesans in the illustrated albums of early modern travelers / Margaret F. Rosenthal -- "Notes of flesh" and the courtesan's song in seventeenth-century China / Judith T. Zeitlin -- The courtesan's voice : Petrarchan lovers, pop philosophy, and oral traditions / Martha Feldman -- On hearing the courtesan in a gift of song : the Venetian case of Gaspar Stampa / Dawn De Rycke -- On locating the courtesan in Italian lyric : distance and the madrigal texts of Costanzo Festa / Justin Flosi -- On music fit for a courtesan : representations of the courtesan and her music in sixteenth-century Italy / Drew Edward Davies -- Royalty's courtesans and God's mortal wives : keepers of culture in precolonial India / Doris M. Srinivasan -- The courtesan's singing body as cultural capital in seventeenth-century Italy / Bonnie Gordon -- Defaming the courtesan : satire and invective in sixteenth-century Italy / Courtney Quaintance -- The masculine arts of the ancient Greek courtesan : male fantasy or female self-representation? / Christopher A. Faraone -- The city geisha and their role in modern Japan : anomaly or artistes? / Lesley Downer -- In the service of the nation : geisha and Kawabata Yasunari's Snow country / Miho Matsugu -- Going to the courtesans : transit to the pleasure district of Edo Japan / Timon Screech -- Who's afraid of Giulia Napolitana? Pleasure, fear, and imagining the arts of the Renaissance courtesan / Guido Ruggiero -- The twentieth-century "disappearance" of the Gisaeng during the rise of Korea's modern sex-and-entertainment industry / Joshua D. Pilzer -- Female agency and patrilinieal constraints : situating courtesans in twentieth-century India / Regula Burckhardt Qureshi -- Tawa'if, tourism, and tales : the problematics of twenty-first-century musical patronage of North India's courtesans / Amelia Maciszewski.
650 0 $aCourtesans$xHistory$vCross-cultural studies.
700 1 $aFeldman, Martha.
700 1 $aGordon, Bonnie,$d1968-
856 41 $3Table of contents only$uhttp://www.loc.gov/catdir/toc/fy0612/2005047340.html
856 42 $3Publisher description$uhttp://www.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy0638/2005047340-d.html
856 42 $3Contributor biographical information$uhttp://www.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy0725/2005047340-b.html