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| Additional Physical Format: | Online version: Weiner, Marc A. Richard Wagner and the anti-Semitic imagination. Lincoln : University of Nebraska Press, c1995 (OCoLC)639392796 |
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| Named Person: | Richard Wagner; Richard Wagner |
| Material Type: | Government publication, State or province government publication |
| Document Type: | Book |
| All Authors / Contributors: |
Marc A Weiner |
| ISBN: | 0803247753 9780803247758 |
| OCLC Number: | 30355249 |
| Description: | xii, 439 p. : ill. ; 25 cm. |
| Series Title: | Texts and contexts, v. 12. |
| Responsibility: | Marc A. Weiner. |
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Abstract:
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."
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