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Condition
Like New: A book that has been read, but looks new. The book cover has no visible wear, and the dust ...
Type
Paperback
Book Title
Opera, Sex and Other Vital Matters
Publication Name
University of Chicago Press
Item Height
0.76 inches
ISBN-10
0226721833
Author
Robinson, Paul
Genre
SOCIAL SCIENCE
Item Length
8.98 inches
Item Width
6.04 inches
Item Weight
1.04 pounds
ISBN
9780226721835

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Product Identifiers

Publisher
University of Chicago Press
ISBN-10
0226721833
ISBN-13
9780226721835
eBay Product ID (ePID)
2197432

Product Key Features

Book Title
Opera, Sex and Other Vital Matters
Number of Pages
332 Pages
Language
English
Topic
History & Criticism, Gender Studies, American / General, Essays
Publication Year
2002
Genre
Music, Social Science, Literary Collections
Author
Paul Robinson
Format
Trade Paperback

Dimensions

Item Height
0.1 in
Item Weight
17 Oz
Item Length
0.9 in
Item Width
0.6 in

Additional Product Features

Intended Audience
Trade
LCCN
2001-004444
Dewey Edition
21
Dewey Decimal
081
Table Of Content
Preface Acknowledgments A Symposium on Opera and Ideas 2. Reading Libretti and Misreading Opera 3. The Musical Enlightenment: Haydn's Creation and Mozart's Magic Flute 4. Fidelio and the French Revolution 5. Verdi's Fathers and Daughters 6. Is Aida an Orientalist Opera? 7. The Wagner Problem 8. Richard Strauss, Ambivalent Modernist 9. The Opera Queen: A Voice from the Closet 10. Homosexuality: Choice or Destiny? 11. Sex Studies and Sex Books: Four Reviews 12. For the Love of Big Brother: The Sexual Politics of Nineteen Eighty-Four 13. "Dear Paul": An Exchange between Student and Teacher 14. Three Essays on Freud Freud under Siege Freud and the Feminists Freud and Homosexuality 15. H. Stuart Hughes and Intellectual History 16. Three Essays on Writing Why Write? Lost Causes The Philosophy of Punctuation 17. Cats Epilogue: My Afterlife Index
Synopsis
Opera, Sex and Other Vital Matters gathers both classic and never-before-published essays from one of the leading stylists in contemporary American letters, and one of our more revered public intellectuals, Paul Robinson. Diverse and elegant, the essays in this collection showcase the sly wit and lightly worn erudition of their author. Each celebrates art and the flesh, directing us to the twin ecstasies of music and eros., Opera, Sex, and Other Vital Matters gathers both classic and never-before-published essays from one of the leading stylists in contemporary American letters, and one of our more revered public intellectuals, Paul Robinson. Diverse and elegant, the essays in this new collection showcase the sly wit and lightly worn erudition of their author. Each celebrates art and the flesh, directing us to the twin ecstasies of music and eros. The essays on opera gathered here explore how masterpieces like Fidelio and The Magic Flute reflect the intellectual currents of their day. Be it the work of Verdi or Mozart, Wagner or Strauss, Robinson compels us to search for meaning not just in the lyrics of opera but also in the music. In melody, not libretto, we are more likely to discern key historical complexities and appreciate the way opera transcends language and time. The essays on sexuality, meanwhile, are ruminative, funny, and even moving. At one moment, Robinson measures whether homosexuality is the result of destiny or free choice. In another, he shares a touching exchange of letters with a gay student in the process of coming out. The final essays that encompass "other vital matters" find Robinson at his most incisive. Whether defending Freud as the most influential thinker of the twentieth century, attacking the dreaded use of semicolons, reflecting on his own mortality, or even meditating on the nature of cats, Sex, Opera, and Other Vital Matters is an eclectic work that will appeal to any reader interested in the continuing relevance of ideas to life.
LC Classification Number
AC8.R546 2002

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