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    3038 Hennepin Ave Minneapolis, MN
    612-822-4611

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Kissing the Mask: Beauty, Understatement and Femininity in Japanese Noh Theater

Kissing the Mask: Beauty, Understatement and Femininity in Japanese Noh Theater

Vollmann, William T.

Paperback

General Gender StudiesTheater HistoryWomen's Studies

ISBN10: 0061228494
ISBN13: 9780061228490
Publisher: Ecco Press
Published: Mar 15 2011
Pages: 528
Weight: 1.35
Height: 1.40 Width: 5.90 Depth: 8.90
Language: English

Intrepid journalist and novelist William T. Vollman's colossal body of work stands unsurpassed for its range, moral imperative, and artistry.


--Booklist

William T. Vollmann, the National Book Award-winning author of Europe Central, offers a charming, evocative, and piercing examination of the ancient Japanese tradition of Noh theatre and the keys it holds to our modern understanding of beauty. Kissing the Mask is the first major book on Noh by an American writer since the 1916 publication the classic study Pisan Cantos and the Noh by Ezra Pound. But Kissing the Mask is pure Vollman--illustrated with photos by the author with provocative related side-discussions on femininity, transgender, kabuki, pornography, geishas, and more.

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