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000436507 05014 $$aPN2924.5.N6$$bV65 2011
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000436507 1001_ $$aVollmann, William T.
000436507 24510 $$aKissing the mask :$$bbeauty, understatement, and femininity in Japanese Noh theater : with some thoughts on muses (especially Helga Testorf), transgender women, Kabuki goddesses, porn queens, poets, housewives, makeup artists, geishas, valkyries, and Venus figurines /$$cWilliam T. Vollmann.
000436507 250__ $$a1st Ecco pbk. ed.
000436507 260__ $$aNew York :$$bEcco,$$c2011, c2010.
000436507 300__ $$axxi, 504 p. :$$bill. ;$$c23 cm.
000436507 500__ $$aReprint. Originally published: c2010.
000436507 504__ $$aIncludes bibliographical references.
000436507 5050_ $$aUnderstatements about this string-ball of idle thoughts -- I. Black hair. "The mask is most important always" : the Noh performances of Umewaka Rokuro -- Schematics : roles, rules, props -- Malignance and charm : a catalogue of female masks -- A branch of flowers : steps to ineffability -- The dragons of Kasuga : texts, places, histories, masks -- Sunshine at midnight : an interview with Mr. Mikata Shizuka -- Perfect faces : maiden, mask, geisha, wife, princess -- Aya Kudo and the Zo-onna : a porn model compared with a Noh goddess -- Her golden lips slightly parted : an image of Kannon -- Crossing the abyss : the three beings of three women -- What is grace? A list and a possible hermeneutic -- Rainbow skirts : the loveliness of Lady Yang -- Jewels in the darkness : the dances of Kofumi-san and Konomi-san -- "She cannot do anything else" : compulsions, costs, achievements -- Suzuka's dressing room : a geisha gets ready -- "They just want to look in the mirror" : Yukiko makes me over -- "I sit with my legs closed" : glimpses of onnagatas -- "There's no ugly lady face" : Katy transforms -- The phallus of Tiresias : what is a woman? -- II. White arms. A curtain of mist : understatement and concealment -- In the forest : an apology -- Sun-bright like swords : the beauty of valkyries -- Passing light : Andrew Wyeth's Helga pictures -- Who is the willow tree goddess? Snatches of a play -- III. Beauty's ghost. Snow in a silver bowl : an epitaph for Radha's grace -- Beauty's ghost : Ono no Komachi in traditional Noh plays -- Urashima's box : a few thoughts about time -- The decay of the angel : Komachi in the Noh plays of Mishima Yukio -- IV. The moon maiden goes home. Sunshine on Silla : the unknown -- Pine tree constancy : "Takasago," "Izutsu" and "Matsukaze" -- Kagekiyo's daughter : "Semimaru" and the plays of separation -- Behind the rainbow curtain : going home beneath the skin -- Appendix A : Descriptions of feminine beauty in The pillow book of Sei Shonagon (ca. 1000-1010) -- Appendix B : Descriptions of feminine beauty in some Old Norse sources -- Appendix C : Descriptions of feminine beauty in Sappho and miscellaneous Greek lyric sources -- Appendix D : Proportions of feminine beauty in some classical and Western European sources -- Appendix E : Noh play groups, and plays mentioned.
000436507 520__ $$a"What is a woman? To what extent is femininity a performance? Writing with the extra-ordinary awareness and endless curiosity that have defined his entire oeuvre, William T. Vollmann takes an in-depth look at the Japanese craft of Noh theater, using the medium as a prism to reveal the conception of beauty itself." "Kissing the Mask explores the enigma surrounding Noh theater and the traditions that have made it intrinsic to Japanese culture for centuries."--[book cover]
000436507 650_0 $$aNō.
000436507 650_0 $$aWomen in the theater$$zJapan.
000436507 650_0 $$aGender identity in the theater$$zJapan.
000436507 650_0 $$aSex role in the theater$$zJapan.
000436507 650_0 $$aFeminine beauty (Aesthetics)
000436507 650_0 $$aFemininity.
000436507 650_0 $$aGeishas.
000436507 650_0 $$aKabuki.
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