The Triumph of Pleasure

The Triumph of Pleasure
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Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Total Pages : 332
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ISBN-10 : 9780226116389
ISBN-13 : 0226116387
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Book Synopsis The Triumph of Pleasure by : Georgia Cowart

Download or read book The Triumph of Pleasure written by Georgia Cowart and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2008-12-15 with total page 332 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With a particular focus on the court ballet, comedy-ballet, opera, and opera-ballet, Georgia J. Cowart tells the long-neglected story of how the festive arts deployed an intricate network of subversive satire to undermine the rhetoric of sovereign authority.


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