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Journal articles on the topic "Courtesans"

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Berg, Daria. "CULTURAL DISCOURSE ON XUE SUSU, A COURTESAN IN LATE MING CHINA." International Journal of Asian Studies 6, no. 2 (2009): 171–200. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s1479591409000205.

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This paper investigates perceptions of courtesans, gender and power from various perspectives, using both literary and non-literary sources and reconstructed lost books. Analysis focuses on representations of the celebrated courtesan, poet and painter Xue Susu (fl. 1575–before 1652) by writers of different backgrounds, gender and class. In late Ming times women participated in elite culture in unprecedented numbers. Courtesans gained prominence in the literati arts, playing a formative role in shaping cultural ideals. Late imperial Chinese discourse embeds the image of the courtesan in the for
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تنزیلہ شبیر and ڈاکٹر زینت افشاں. "THE REPRESENTATION OF THE PROSTITUTE IN MANTO’S STORIESI IN THE CONTEXT OF SUBALTERN NARRATIVE." Kashf Journal of Multidisciplinary Research 2, no. 01 (2025): 10–21. https://doi.org/10.71146/kjmr181.

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In the context of subaltern narrative, the identity of the courtesan in Manto's stories is a complex and multi-dimensional subject. According to subaltern theory, those individuals or classes who are marginalized or whose voices are silenced do not find a place in the dominant narrative, and they are discussed within a socio-political framework. In Manto's writings, the courtesan is presented as part of a similar suppressed and overlooked class. Manto portrays the courtesan not only as a victim of social stigma and exploitation but also as a human being with emotions and struggles. Courtesans,
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Xu, Sufeng. "The Courtesan as Famous Scholar: The Case of Wang Wei (ca. 1598-ca. 1647)." T’oung Pao 105, no. 5-6 (2020): 587–630. http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/15685322-10556p03.

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Abstract This article examines the life and poetry of Wang Wei, one of the most distinguished courtesan poets of the Ming dynasty. Through an examination of her courtesan career, her friendship networks in literati circles, and her adoption of multiple identities such as xianren (person of leisure), daoren (person of the Dao), and shiren (poet), it seeks to illustrate what I believe is an important explanation for the flourishing of late Ming courtesan and literati culture. The rising prominence of learned and literary courtesans was strongly connected to a new social formation of nonconformis
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Pi-Ching, Hsu. "Courtesans and Scholars in the Writings of Feng Menglong: Transcending Status and Gender." NAN NÜ 2, no. 1 (2000): 40–77. http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/156852600750072303.

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AbstractThe last century of the Ming dynasty saw an upsurge in romances between talented scholars and devoted courtesans. This paper discusses the social, cultural, economic, and political factors which might have contributed to the popularity of that genre. Focusing on Feng Menglong's writings of idealized courtesans who transcended their lowly existence at the bottom of gender and status hierarchies, the study also explores the interplay of ethics and culture in the courtesan-scholar romances and what the romances revealed about the literati perceptions of Self and Other.
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Nazarova, O. A., and R. R. Gaynullina. "The Courtesan in the Italian Renaissance Art: Portraits of Barbara Salutati by Domenico Puligo." Art Studies Journal, no. 4 (2024): 110–43. https://doi.org/10.51678/2073-316x-2024-4-110-143.

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The paper addresses a long-debated issue of whether and how courtesans were represented in Italian Renaissance painting. The first part presents a historiographical review of the art-historical literature on the subject, demonstrating which types of Renaissance painted images used to be associated with courtesans, and how radically approaches to interpreting these works have changed in recent years. The second part analyses a unique set of three portrait images – the only one that can be plausibly linked to the historical figure of a specific courtesan, the Florentine Barbara Salutati, who was
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Fleck, Andrew. "The Custom of Courtesans and John Marston'sThe Dutch Courtesan." ANQ: A Quarterly Journal of Short Articles, Notes and Reviews 21, no. 3 (2008): 11–19. http://dx.doi.org/10.3200/anqq.21.3.11-19.

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Zurndorfer, Harriet T. "Prostitutes and Courtesans in the Confucian Moral Universe of Late Ming China (1550–1644)." International Review of Social History 56, S19 (2011): 197–216. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0020859011000411.

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SummaryThis study pursues three goals: to unravel the socio-economic conditions which pushed women into prostitution and courtesanship, to analyse their position in Chinese society, and to relate what changes occurred at the end of the Ming dynasty that affected their status. According to contemporary judicial regulations, both prostitutes and courtesans were classified as “entertainers”, and therefore had the status of jianmin [mean people], which made them “outcasts” and pariahs. But there were great differences, beyond the bestowal of sexual favours, in the kind of work these women performe
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Feldman, Shelley, and Karuna Morarji. "Highway Courtesans." Visual Anthropology 20, no. 2-3 (2007): 251–54. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/08949460601064663.

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Zamperini, Paola. "But i nEver Learned To Waltz: the "Real" and Imagined Education of a Courtesan in the Late Qing." NAN NÜ 1, no. 1 (1999): 107–44. http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/156852699x00072.

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AbstractThis article illustrates the complex web of agency, voice, compliance, and resistance that men and women alike wove and unraveled in (re)presenting fictional and nonfictional versions of the education and the life-cycle of courtesans at the turn of last century. On the one hand, it shows how Chinese male novelists appropriate the long-standing cliche of the courtesan to expand (albeit in a limited way) and exoticize the horizons of female subjectivity. On the other hand, it reveals how, thanks to the explosive development of print culture begun in the late nineteenth century, the court
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Park, Chungah. "A Study of the Courtesan Images in Sanyŏhwa during the Late Ming and Early Qing Dynasties." Korean Journal of Art History 322 (June 30, 2024): 93–120. http://dx.doi.org/10.31065/kjah.322.202406.004.

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This paper explores <i>Sanyŏhwa</i> (仕女畵, <i>Painting of Court Ladies</i>) from late Ming and early Qing dynasties, aiming to unravel the various perspectives and interpretations associated with courtesans. During these periods, economic and commercial growth in Jiangnan (江南) spurred a thriving entertainment culture, fostering intimate bonds between celebrated courtesans and intellectuals. Known for their refined poise and exceptional talents, courtesans were lauded as the epitome of beauty by the contemporary elites who frequently discussed the beauty (美人, <i>mei
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Dissertations / Theses on the topic "Courtesans"

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Shreve-Price, Sharada Sue. "Complicated courtesans: Lucian's Dialogues of the courtesans." Diss., University of Iowa, 2014. https://ir.uiowa.edu/etd/1501.

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Lucian's Dialogues of the Courtesans (Dialogi Meretricii) are fifteen short dialogues set in classical Athens. The Dialogues depict exchanges between courtesans and between courtesans and their clients. Dialogues of the Courtesans is part of a larger body of Greek literature featuring courtesans that begins with the first attested use of hetaira (ἑταίρα) for courtesan in Herodotus' Histories (2.134) and includes Attic oratory, philosophical dialogue, Hellenistic epigram, and New Comedy. Though Lucian borrows from this body of literature, especially from New Comedy, to craft his fictional world
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Funke, Melissa. "Sexuality and gender in Alciphron's Letters of Courtesans." Thesis, University of British Columbia, 2008. http://hdl.handle.net/2429/2288.

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Current studies on the topic of sexuality in the ancient Greek world tend to favour the active/passive paradigm of understanding sexual relations which was originally proposed in Kenneth Dover's Greek Homosexuality (1978) and Michel Foucault's three volume History of Sexuality (1978, 1985, and 1986). In Dover and Foucault, the sexual behaviour of the classical Athenian male takes primacy, so much so that the reader of either scholar can be left with the impression that the role of the active partner was available only to adult citizen males. Alciphron's Letters of Courtesans (Book 4 of his wor
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Pesuit, Margaret. "Representations of the courtesan in sixteenth-century Venice : sex, class, and power." Thesis, National Library of Canada = Bibliothèque nationale du Canada, 1997. http://www.collectionscanada.ca/obj/s4/f2/dsk2/ftp01/MQ37227.pdf.

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Whiteley, Rebekah. "Courtesans and kings, ancient Greek perspectives on the hetairai." Thesis, National Library of Canada = Bibliothèque nationale du Canada, 2000. http://www.collectionscanada.ca/obj/s4/f2/dsk2/ftp03/MQ49593.pdf.

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Davidson, James N. "Courtesans and fishcakes : the consuming passion of classical Athens /." New York (N.Y.) : St. Martin's press, 1998. http://catalogue.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/cb37633420f.

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Taranath, Anupama. "Disrupting colonial modernity : Indian courtesans and literary cultures, 1888-1912 /." Diss., Connect to a 24 p. preview or request complete full text in PDF format. Access restricted to UC campuses, 2000. http://wwwlib.umi.com/cr/ucsd/fullcit?p9981961.

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Steenson, J. D. "' The courtesans characters : ''scandalous memoirists'' and their fiction, 1788-1830'." Thesis, Queen's University Belfast, 2008. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.492317.

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This thesis examines 'character' as the place where issues of public and private reputation and memoir and fiction meet, taking as its focus three of the late eighteenth-century's most notorious courtesans and memoirists - Elizabeth Gooch (1756 - post 1804), Mary Robinson (1758 - 1800) and Harriette Wilson (1786 1845). As figures who had publicly flouted the restraints of the period's conventional definitions of feminine identity, all three women came to write about their lives mindful of the rigorous discourses that governed the expression of female character. While tensions between the intem
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Granholm, Patrik. "Alciphron, Letters of the Courtesans : Edited with Introduction, Translation and Commentary." Doctoral thesis, Uppsala universitet, Institutionen för lingvistik och filologi, 2012. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:uu:diva-183681.

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This dissertation aims at providing a new critical edition of the fictitious Letters of the Courtesans attributed to Alciphron (late 2nd or early 3rd century AD). The first part of the introduction begins with a brief survey of the problematic dating and identification of Alciphron, followed by a general overview of the epistolary genre and the letters of Alciphron. The main part of the introduction deals with the manuscript tradition. Eighteen manuscripts, which contain some or all of the Letters of the Courtesans, are described and the relationship between them is analyzed based on complete
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Lemperle, Shandy April. "Kings and Courtesans: A Study of the Pictorial Representation of French Royal Mistresses." The University of Montana, 2008. http://etd.lib.umt.edu/theses/available/etd-05302008-103549/.

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This thesis explores the development in the pictorial representation of four important French royal mistresses. It looks at works depicting Agnès Sorel, mistress to Charles VII; Diane de Poitiers, mistress to Henri II; Gabrielle dEstrées, mistress to Henri IV; and Madame de Pompadour, mistress to Louis XV. By placing the portrayals of these women within a historical context, it becomes apparent that there are links between the strength of the crown and the depictions of the mistresses. This thesis traces the development of the imagery associated with these women and demonstrates that as the cr
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Lemperlé, Shandy April. "Kings and courtesans a study of the pictorial representation of French royal mistresses /." CONNECT TO THIS TITLE ONLINE, 2008. http://etd.lib.umt.edu/theses/available/etd-05302008-103549/.

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Books on the topic "Courtesans"

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Hickman, Katie. Courtesans. HarperPerennial, 2004.

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Brabbee, Mystelle, and Anura Idupuganti. Highway courtesans. Women Make Movies, 2005.

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Alciphron. Letters of the courtesans. UPPSALA Universitet, 2012.

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Griffin, Susan. The Book of the Courtesans. Broadway Books, 2002.

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Ryū, Keiichirō. The blade of the courtesans. Vertical, 2008.

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Lucian. Chattering courtesans and other sardonic sketches. Penguin Books, 2004.

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Haeger, Diane. Courtesan. Pocket Star Books, 1993.

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A, Faraone Christopher, and McClure Laura 1959-, eds. Prostitutes and courtesans in the ancient world. University of Wisconsin Press, 2005.

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Godse, Dattatraya Ganesh. Mastānī. Pôpyulara Prakāśana, 1989.

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Lacroix, P. L. Les courtisanes de l'ancienne Rome. Pardès, 1988.

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Book chapters on the topic "Courtesans"

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Vaporis, Constantine Nomikos. "Courtesans and the Sex Trade." In Voices of Early Modern Japan. Routledge, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.4324/9781003005292-42.

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Gilhuly, Kate. "Corinth, courtesans and the politics of place." In Erotic Geographies in Ancient Greek Literature and Culture. Routledge, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.4324/9781315182667-2.

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Stephens, Russell. "Qing Diplomats, French Courtesans, and Street Slang." In The Politics of Sex, Race and Working-Class Slang in Late Second Empire French Caricature. Routledge, 2025. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003558095-3.

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Davies, Drew Edward. "On Music Fit for a Courtesan: Representations of the Courtesan and Her Music in Sixteenth-Century Italy." In The Courtesan’s Arts. Oxford University PressNew York, NY, 2006. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780195170283.003.0009.

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Abstract For modern-day scholars it is hard to differentiate courtesans’ music-making from women’s musical traditions in general. Dawn De Rycke and Martha Feldman have elaborated on how courtesans’ traditions of solo song, though orally transmitted, can be imagined in practice in the absence of a specific musical canon. By contrast, this essay explores courtesans’ music and music-making as mediated through several compositional, visual, and poetic repertories that do not transmit the courtesan’s voice directly but mediate it through various genres, especially paintings that associate specific
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Gordon, Bonnie, and Martha Feldman. "Introduction." In The Courtesan’s Arts. Oxford University PressNew York, NY, 2006. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780195170283.003.0001.

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Abstract This volume is an attempt to understand the courtesan and her arts by creating a dialogue about different courtesan cultures. Though hardly a universal phenomenon, courtesanship has recurred in specific times and places, from precolonial India and ancient Greece to imperial China, Renaissance Italy, and Edo Japan. Invariably courtesans have been accompanied by a repertory of rhetorical, gestural, sonic, and visual idioms that complement their sensual power. The essays that follow explore the conditions that have allowed courtesan cultures to evolve and thrive, or caused them to perish
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Rycke, Dawn De. "On Hearing the Courtesan in a Gift of Song: The Venetian Case of Gaspara Stampa." In The Courtesan’s Arts. Oxford University PressNew York, NY, 2006. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780195170283.003.0007.

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Abstract We have seen that the repertories performed by Italian courtesans to such acclaim are highly problematic for the modern scholar. Indeed there is hardly a single collection or even piece that can be said with absolute certainty to have been sung by a woman, courtesan or otherwise. In what follows I offer a case study designed to interrogate the much larger problem of the courtesan’s lost music by looking at a set of polyphonic partbooks and proposing new possibilities for how female performance of solo song might be buried in written sources. My evidence is a fourvoice collection of ma
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"Courtesans." In The Red Brush. BRILL, 2004. http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/9781684173945_012.

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Chaplin, Felicity. "Courtesan." In La Parisienne in Cinema. Manchester University Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.7228/manchester/9781526109538.003.0006.

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La Parisienne is frequently associated with prostitution, whether in the narrow sense of the streetwalker or courtesan or the general sense of the object and subject of consumption. Tracing her development in nineteenth-century art and literature, this chapter examines the way the Parisienne as courtesan is re-presented in cinema in Charles Chaplin’s A Woman of Paris (1923), Alain Cavalier’s La Chamade (1968), and Baz Luhrmann’s Moulin Rouge! (2001). Cinematic courtesans have their prefigurations in both real life courtesans of the Second Empire, as well as in representations in French art, li
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Screech, Timon. "Going to the Courtesans: Transit to the Pleasure District of Edo Japan." In The Courtesan’s Arts. Oxford University PressNew York, NY, 2006. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780195170283.003.0016.

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Abstract This essay addresses the process by which males accessed female courtesan enclaves during Japan’s Edo Period (1603–1868). It proposes that men were transformed and so prepared for the transient joys of the pleasure world through rituals of transit from the city proper to the pleasure districts, and were reconnected to civic life upon their return home the following morning. In tracing this transit, I dwell more on the culture of proleptic expectation than on the courtesans per se, and the voices heard are more male than female, the subjectivities of the courtesans them-selves existing
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"COURTESANS AT WORK." In Polygamy, Prostitutes and Death. The Classical Press of Wales, 2023. http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/jj.3919354.15.

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