Opera
Clement, Catherine
ISBN 10: 0816635269 ISBN 13: 9780816635269
Published by University of Minnesota Press, 1999
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An incisive and impassioned examination of women’s treatment in opera.
Catherine Clément analyzes the plots of over thirty prominent operas-Otello and Siegfried to Madame Butterfly and The Magic Flute-through the lenses of feminism and literary theory to unveil the negative messages about women in stories familiar to every opera listener.
About the Author:
Catherine Clément has been an academic, a diplomat, and cultural editor of Le Matin. She has written books on structuralism, psychoanalysis, and Marxism and is the author of Syncope: The Philosophy of Rapture and the coauthor, with Hélène Cixous, of The Newly Born Woman.
Betsy Wing also translated The Newly Born Woman.
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Bibliographic Details
Title: Opera
Publisher: University of Minnesota Press
Publication Date: 1999
Binding: Soft cover
Condition: New