| Description |
xxvii, 396 p. : ill., music ; 24 cm |
| Series |
ACLS Fellows' publications.
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ACLS Humanities E-Book.
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| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (p. 369-380) and index. |
| Contents |
Making 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 -- |
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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 -- |
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Tawa'if, tourism, and tales : the problematics of twenty-first-century musical patronage of North India's courtesans / Amelia Maciszewski. |
| Reproduction |
Electronic text and image data. Ann Arbor, Mich. : University of Michigan, Michigan Publishing, 2014. Includes both TIFF files and keyword searchable text. ([ACLS Fellows' Publications]) ([ACLS Humanities E-Book]) Mode of access: Intranet. |
| Subject |
Courtesans -- History -- Cross-cultural studies.
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| Added Author |
American Council of Learned Societies.
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Feldman, Martha.
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Gordon, Bonnie, 1968-
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| In: |
ACLS Humanities E-Book. URL: https://www.humanitiesebook.org/ |
| Other Form: |
Original 0195170288 0195170296 (DLC) 2005047340 |
| Standard No. |
2027/heb09019 hdl |
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