03670nam 2200541 a 450 99624797420331620200520144314.00-19-517028-81-283-05873-197866130587370-19-977508-7(CKB)2670000000082246(OCoLC)710992964(CaPaEBR)ebrary10460669(SSID)ssj0000468074(PQKBManifestationID)11303657(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000468074(PQKBWorkID)10498018(PQKB)10468687(MiAaPQ)EBC886614(Au-PeEL)EBL886614(CaPaEBR)ebr10460669(CaONFJC)MIL305873(EXLCZ)99267000000008224620050317d2006 uy 0engurcn|||||||||txtccrThe courtesan's arts[electronic resource] cross-cultural perspectives /edited by Martha Feldman and Bonnie GordonNew York Oxford University Press20061 online resource (425 p.) Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph0-19-517029-6 Includes bibliographical references (p. 369-380) and index.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 -- 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.CourtesansHistoryCross-cultural studiesElectronic books.CourtesansHistory306.74/2/08621Feldman Martha27650Gordon Bonnie1968-947313MiAaPQBOOK996247974203316The courtesan's arts2140385UNISA