Richard Wagner and the Anti-Semitic Imagination (TEXTS AND CONTEXTS)
Weiner, Marc A.
ISBN 10: 0803247753 ISBN 13: 9780803247758
Published by University of Nebraska Press, 1995
Used
hardcover
From
Your Online Bookstore, Houston, TX, U.S.A.
Seller rating 5 out of 5 stars
AbeBooks Seller since 6 July 2010
This specific item is no longer available.
About this Item
Description:
Seller Inventory # 0803247753-3-35971222
Synopsis:
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."
About the Authors:
Marc A. Weiner is a professor of Germanic studies and film studies at Indiana University and the author of Undertones of Insurrection (Nebraska 1993).
Marc A. Weiner is an associate professor of Germanic studies at Indiana University.
"About this title" may belong to another edition of this title.
Bibliographic Details
Title: Richard Wagner and the Anti-Semitic ...
Publisher: University of Nebraska Press
Publication Date: 1995
Binding: hardcover
Condition: Good