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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1. Verfasser:	Weiner, Marc A. (VerfasserIn)
Format:	Buch
Sprache:	English
Veröffentlicht:	Lincoln, Neb. u.a. Univ. of Nebraska Press 1995
Schriftenreihe:	Texts and contexts 12
Schlagworte:	Wagner, Richard <1813-1883> > Symbolism Wagner, Richard > 1813-1883 > Das Judentum in der Musik Wagner, Richard > 1813-1883 Antisemitisme Menselijk lichaam Opera's Symboliek Antisemitismus Antisemitism Human body in literature Oper Judentum
Zusammenfassung:	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."
Beschreibung:	XII, 439 S. Ill., Notenbeisp.
ISBN:	0803247753