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Richard Wagner and the anti-Semitic imagination

Author: Marc A Weiner
Publisher: Lincoln : University of Nebraska Press, ©1995.
Series: Texts and contexts, v. 12.
Edition/Format:   Book : State or province government publication : EnglishView all editions and formats
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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  Read more...
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Weiner, Marc A.
Richard Wagner and the anti-Semitic imagination.
Lincoln : University of Nebraska Press, c1995
(OCoLC)639392796
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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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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