From Immortality to Mortality: Images of Tang Courtesans in Verse, Painting, and Anecdote.
This paper examines different modes of representation of the courtesan in the poetry, painting and anecdotes of the Tang dynasty, and the implications of the disparities between these genres. Examples of courtesan poems idolized these entertaining girls and featured a poetic approach that drew on ea...
| Publicado en: | Frontiers of Literary Studies in China Vol. 6; no. 2; pp. 277 - 294 |
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Higher Education Press Limited Company
Apr2012
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