Opera, sex, and other vital matters

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Opera, sex, and other vital matters

Paul Robinson

University of Chicago Press, 2002

  • : cloth
  • : pbk.

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Includes bibliographical references and index

Contents of Works

  • A symposium on opera and ideas with Bernard Williams and Peter Kivy
  • Reading libretti and misreading opera
  • The musical enlightenment : Haydn's Creation and Mozart's Magic flute
  • Fidelio and the French revolution
  • Verdi's Fathers and daughters
  • Is Aida an orientalist opera?
  • The Wagner problem
  • Richard Strauss, ambivalent modernist
  • The opera queen : a voice from the closet
  • Homosexuality : choice or destiny?
  • Sex studies and sex books : four reviews
  • For the love of big brother : the sexual politics of Nineteen eighty-four
  • "Dear Paul" : an exchange between student and teacher
  • Three essays on Freud
  • Freud under siege
  • Freud and the feminists
  • Freud and homosexuality
  • H. Stuart Hughes and intellectual history
  • Three essays on writing
  • Why write?
  • Lost causes
  • The philosophy of punctuation
  • Cats

Details

  • NCID
    BA60307537
  • ISBN
    • 0226721825
    • 0226721833
  • LCCN
    2001004444
  • Country Code
    us
  • Title Language Code
    eng
  • Text Language Code
    eng
  • Place of Publication
    Chicago
  • Pages/Volumes
    xviii, 332 p.
  • Size
    24 cm
  • Classification
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