The courtesan's arts : cross-cultural perspectives /
The courtesan's arts : cross-cultural perspectives /
edited by Martha Feldman and Bonnie Gordon.
- New York : Oxford University Press, 2006.
- 1 online resource (xxvii, 396 pages) : illustrations
- ACLS Fellows' publications. ACLS Humanities E-Book. .
Some online versions lack accompanying media packaged with the printed version.
Includes bibliographical references (pages 369-380) and index.
Making a spectacle of her(self) : the Greek courtesan and the art of the present / Cutting a good figure : the fashions of Venetian courtesans in the illustrated albums of early modern travelers / "Notes of flesh" and the courtesan's song in seventeenth-century China / The courtesan's voice : Petrarchan lovers, pop philosophy, and oral traditions / On hearing the courtesan in a gift of song : the Venetian case of Gaspara Stampa / On locating the courtesan in Italian lyric : distance and the madrigal texts of Costanzo Festa / On music fit for a courtesan : representations of the courtesan and her music in sixteenth-century Italy / Royalty's courtesans and God's mortal wives : keepers of culture in precolonial India / The courtesan's singing body as cultural capital in seventeenth-century Italy / Defaming the courtesan : satire and invective in sixteenth-century Italy / The masculine arts of the ancient Greek courtesan : male fantasy or female self-representation? / The city geisha and their role in modern Japan : anomaly or artistes? / In the service of the nation : geisha and Kawabata Yasunari's Snow country / Going to the courtesans : transit to the pleasure district of Edo Japan / Who's afraid of Giulia Napolitana? : pleasure, fear, and imagining the arts of the Renaissance courtesan / The twentieth-century "disappearance" of the gisaeng during the rise of Korea's modern sex-and-entertainment industry / Female agency and patrilineal constraints : situating courtesans in twentieth-century India / Tawa'if, tourism, and tales : the problematics of twenty-first-century musical patronage for North India's courtesans / James Davidson -- Margaret F. Rosenthal -- Judith T. Zeitlin -- Martha Feldman -- Dawn De Rycke -- Justin Flosi -- Drew Edward Davies -- Doris M. Srinivasan -- Bonnie Gordon -- Courtney Quaintance -- Christopher A. Faraone -- Lesley Downer -- Miho Matsugu -- Timon Screech -- Guido Ruggiero -- Joshua D. Pilzer -- Regula Burckhardt Qureshi -- Amelia Maciszewski.
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Courtesans, hetaeras, tawaif-s, ji-s--these women have exchanged artistic graces, elevated conversation, and sexual favors with male patrons throughout history and around the world. In Ming dynasty China and early modern Italy, exchange was made through poetry, speech, and music; in pre-colonial India through magic, music, chemistry, and other arts. Yet like the art of courtesanry itself, those arts have often thrived outside present-day canons and modes of transmission, and have mostly vanished without trace. The Courtesan's Arts delves into this hidden legacy, while touching on its equivocal.
Electronic reproduction.
[S.l.] :
HathiTrust Digital Library,
2011.
Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002.
http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212
9780199775088 (electronic bk.) 0199775087 (electronic bk.)
ACLS Humanities
Courtesans--History--Cross-cultural studies.
Courtisanes--Histoire--Études transculturelles.
15.50 general world history; history of great parts of the world, peoples, civilizations: general.
PSYCHOLOGY--Human Sexuality.
SELF-HELP--Sexual Instruction.
Courtesans.
Kurtisane
Kulturvergleich
Courtesans.
Electronic books.
Electronic books.
Cross-cultural studies.
History.
HQ111 / .C68 2006eb
306.74/2/08621
Some online versions lack accompanying media packaged with the printed version.
Includes bibliographical references (pages 369-380) and index.
Making a spectacle of her(self) : the Greek courtesan and the art of the present / Cutting a good figure : the fashions of Venetian courtesans in the illustrated albums of early modern travelers / "Notes of flesh" and the courtesan's song in seventeenth-century China / The courtesan's voice : Petrarchan lovers, pop philosophy, and oral traditions / On hearing the courtesan in a gift of song : the Venetian case of Gaspara Stampa / On locating the courtesan in Italian lyric : distance and the madrigal texts of Costanzo Festa / On music fit for a courtesan : representations of the courtesan and her music in sixteenth-century Italy / Royalty's courtesans and God's mortal wives : keepers of culture in precolonial India / The courtesan's singing body as cultural capital in seventeenth-century Italy / Defaming the courtesan : satire and invective in sixteenth-century Italy / The masculine arts of the ancient Greek courtesan : male fantasy or female self-representation? / The city geisha and their role in modern Japan : anomaly or artistes? / In the service of the nation : geisha and Kawabata Yasunari's Snow country / Going to the courtesans : transit to the pleasure district of Edo Japan / Who's afraid of Giulia Napolitana? : pleasure, fear, and imagining the arts of the Renaissance courtesan / The twentieth-century "disappearance" of the gisaeng during the rise of Korea's modern sex-and-entertainment industry / Female agency and patrilineal constraints : situating courtesans in twentieth-century India / Tawa'if, tourism, and tales : the problematics of twenty-first-century musical patronage for North India's courtesans / James Davidson -- Margaret F. Rosenthal -- Judith T. Zeitlin -- Martha Feldman -- Dawn De Rycke -- Justin Flosi -- Drew Edward Davies -- Doris M. Srinivasan -- Bonnie Gordon -- Courtney Quaintance -- Christopher A. Faraone -- Lesley Downer -- Miho Matsugu -- Timon Screech -- Guido Ruggiero -- Joshua D. Pilzer -- Regula Burckhardt Qureshi -- Amelia Maciszewski.
Use copy
Courtesans, hetaeras, tawaif-s, ji-s--these women have exchanged artistic graces, elevated conversation, and sexual favors with male patrons throughout history and around the world. In Ming dynasty China and early modern Italy, exchange was made through poetry, speech, and music; in pre-colonial India through magic, music, chemistry, and other arts. Yet like the art of courtesanry itself, those arts have often thrived outside present-day canons and modes of transmission, and have mostly vanished without trace. The Courtesan's Arts delves into this hidden legacy, while touching on its equivocal.
Electronic reproduction.
[S.l.] :
HathiTrust Digital Library,
2011.
Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002.
http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212
9780199775088 (electronic bk.) 0199775087 (electronic bk.)
ACLS Humanities
Courtesans--History--Cross-cultural studies.
Courtisanes--Histoire--Études transculturelles.
15.50 general world history; history of great parts of the world, peoples, civilizations: general.
PSYCHOLOGY--Human Sexuality.
SELF-HELP--Sexual Instruction.
Courtesans.
Kurtisane
Kulturvergleich
Courtesans.
Electronic books.
Electronic books.
Cross-cultural studies.
History.
HQ111 / .C68 2006eb
306.74/2/08621