Richard Wagner and the Anti-Semitic Imagination: Vol 12 - Rilegato

Weiner, Marc A.

Rilegato

ISBN 10: 0803247753 ISBN 13: 9780803247758

Casa editrice: Univ of Nebraska Pr, 1995

Riassunto

This book addresses one of the most hotly contested debates in contemporary cultural life: the question of how anti-Semitism figures in the operas of Richard Wagner. Until now, scholars have generally acknowledged Wagner's anti-Semitism but have argued that it is irrelevant to the operas themselves. Marc A. Weiner challenges that traditional view by asserting that anti-Semitism is a crucial, pervasive feature in Wagner's operas.
Weiner argues that the operas exemplify and contribute to a vast collection of images that are patently anti-Semitic - and that were readily recognized as such by nineteenth-century German audiences. These images were associated particularly with the body.
Through a careful examination of Wagner's music, libretti, and stage directions, Weiner reconstructs iconographies of corporeal images - iconographies of the eye, voice, smell, gait, and sexuality - that were essential to the operas and were "associated with anti-Semitism and the longing for an imagined German community."

Su questo libro

L'autore:

Marc A. Weiner is a professor of Germanic studies and film studies at Indiana University and the author of Undertones of Insurrection (Nebraska 1993).

Product Description:

Book by Weiner Marc A

Su questa edizione

• Editore: Univ of Nebraska Pr
• Data di pubblicazione: 1995
• ISBN 10: 0803247753
• ISBN 13: 9780803247758
• Rilegatura: Copertina rigida
• Numero di pagine: 439