Kissing the mask : beauty, understatement, and femininity in Japanese Noh theater : with some thoughts on muses (especially Helga Testorf), transgender women, kabuki goddesses, porn queens, poets, housewives, makeup artists, geishas, valkyries, and Venus figurines

Author(s)

• Vollmann, William T.

Bibliographic Information

Kissing the mask : beauty, understatement, and femininity in Japanese Noh theater : with some thoughts on muses (especially Helga Testorf), transgender women, kabuki goddesses, porn queens, poets, housewives, makeup artists, geishas, valkyries, and Venus figurines

William T. Vollmann

Ecco, c2010

1st ed.

Note

An imprint of HarperCollins Publishers

Includes bibliographical references (p. [436]-500)

Summary: Explores the enigma surrounding Noh theater and the traditions that have made it intrinsic to Japanese culture for centuries and extracts the secrets of staged femininity and the mystery of perceived and expressed beauty

Details

• NCID: BB02798643
• ISBN:
  • 9780061228483
• Country Code: us
• Title Language Code: eng
• Text Language Code: eng
• Place of Publication: New York, NY
• Pages/Volumes: xxi, 504 p.
• Size: 24 cm
• Classification:
  • LCC : PN2924.5.N6
  • DC22 : 792.7028
  • DC22 : 792.0952
• Subject Headings:
  • LCSH : Nō
  • LCSH : Women in the theater -- Japan
  • LCSH : Gender identity in the theater -- Japan
  • LCSH : Sex role in the theater -- Japan
  • LCSH : Feminine beauty (Aesthetics)
  • LCSH : Femininity
  • LCSH : Geishas
  • LCSH : Kabuki
  • LCSH : Transgender people -- Social aspects