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, 2011, c2010

• : pbk

Note

"A hardcover edition of this book was published in 2010 by Ecco, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers."--T.p. verso

An imprint of HarperCollins Publishers

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

Details

• NCID: BB19440112
• ISBN:
  • 9780061228490
• Country Code: us
• Title Language Code: eng
• Text Language Code: eng
• Place of Publication: New York
• Pages/Volumes: xxi, 504 p.
• Size: 23 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