Richard Wagner and the anti-Semitic imagination /
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 themse...
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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Lincoln :
University of Nebraska Press,
1995
Lincoln : [1995], ©1995 Lincoln : c1995 Lincoln : ©1995 Lincoln : [1995] |
| Series: | Texts and contexts ;
v. 12 Texts and contexts v. 12 Texts and contexts ; v. 12 |
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| Summary: | 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 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." 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." 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 |
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| Item Description: | This WorldCat-derived record is shareable under Open Data Commons ODC-BY, with attribution to OCLC |
| Physical Description: | xii, 439 p ill. ; 25 cm. xii, 439 p. : ill. ; 25 cm xii, 439 p. : ill., music ; 25 cm xii, 439 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (p. [393]-421) and index Includes bibliographical references (pages [393]-421) and index |
| ISBN: | 0803247753 (cl : alk. paper) 0803247753 (cloth : alk. paper) 0803247753 9780803247758 (cloth : alk. paper) 9780803247758 |