03394nam a2200349 a 4500001001200000003000800012006001900020007001500039008004100054010001700095020004100112020004000153020001800193020002500211020002700236040002100263035002100284050002300305082002300328245012600351260004800477300002600525504006400551505200800615533015202623650004902775655002902824700002102853700002702874710001702901856012602918ebr10460669CaPaEBRm        u        cr cn|||||||||050317s2006    nyua    sb    001 0 eng d  z  2005047340  z0195170288 (cloth : acid-free paper)  z0195170296 (pbk. : acid-free paper)  z9780195170283  z9780195170290 (pbk.)  z9780199775088 (e-book)  aCaPaEBRcCaPaEBR  a(OCoLC)71099296414aHQ111b.C68 2006eb04a306.74/2/0862122204aThe courtesan's artsh[electronic resource] :bcross-cultural perspectives /cedited by Martha Feldman and Bonnie Gordon.  aNew York :bOxford University Press,c2006.  axxvii, 396 p. :bill.  aIncludes bibliographical references (p. 369-380) and index.0 aMaking 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.  aElectronic reproduction.bPalo Alto, Calif. :cebrary,d2013.nAvailable via World Wide Web.nAccess may be limited to ebrary affiliated libraries. 0aCourtesansxHistoryvCross-cultural studies. 7aElectronic books.2local1 aFeldman, Martha.1 aGordon, Bonnie,d1968-2 aebrary, Inc.40uhttp://site.ebrary.com/lib/rucke/Doc?id=10460669zAn electronic book accessible through the World Wide Web; click to view