KISSING THE MASK - WILLIAM T. VOLLMANN
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
KORTE INHOUD
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.
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2010Uitgever: , ECCO Print Editions, La Vergne, TN., USA, 2010504 paginasTaal: EngelsISBN-10: 0061228486ISBN-13: 9780061228483Koop dit boek tweedehands
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The National Book Award?winning author of Europe Central offers a charming, evocative and piercing examination of the ancient Japanese tradition of Noh theater and the keys it holds to our modern understanding of beauty. 25,000 first printing.
Hardcover, 504 pagina's, Engels. ISBN 9780061228483. [Auteur: WILLIAM T. VOLLMANN] [Uitgever: , ECCO Print Editions, La Vergne, TN., USA, 2010] [Jaar: 2010] [Titel: KISSING THE MASK]
Hardcover, 504 pagina's, Engels. ISBN 9780061228483. [Auteur: WILLIAM T. VOLLMANN] [Uitgever: , ECCO Print Editions, La Vergne, TN., USA, 2010] [Jaar: 2010] [Titel: KISSING THE MASK]
