| Description |
xii, 439 pages : illustrations, music ; 25 cm. |
| Series |
Texts and contexts ; volume twelve
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series
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Texts and contexts ; v. 12.
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| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 393-421) and index. |
| 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. 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." |
| Language |
English text. |
| Subject |
Wagner, Richard, 1813-1883 -- Symbolism.
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Wagner, Richard, 1813-1883. |
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Symbolism. |
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Antisemitism.
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Antisemitism. |
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Human body in literature.
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Human body in literature. |
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Antisemitisme.
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Menselijk lichaam.
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Opera's.
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Symboliek.
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| ISBN |
0803247753 (cloth : alkaline paper) |
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9780803247758 (cloth : alkaline paper) |
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