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The work of opera : genre, nationhood, and sexual difference

Title
The work of opera : genre, nationhood, and sexual difference / Richard Dellamora and Daniel Fischlin, editors.
Publication
New York : Columbia University Press, c1997.

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Additional Authors
  • Dellamora, Richard.
  • Fischlin, Daniel.
Description
xi, 350 p. : ill.; 26 cm.
Subjects
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents
Kapsberger's Apotheosis ... of Francis Xavier (1622) and the conquering of India / Victor Anand Coelho -- The Italian (Castrato) in London / Todd S. Gilman -- Farinelli's electronic hermaphrodite and the contralto tradition / Felicia Miller -- "O Patria mia" : female homosociality and the gendered nation in Bellini's Norma and Verdi's Aida / Patricia Juliana Smith -- Structures of identity and difference in Bizet's Carmen / Susan McClary -- The waters of Prometheus : nationalism and sexuality in Wagner's Ring / Lawrence Kramer -- Constructing the oriental "other" : Saint-Saëns's Samson et Dalila / Ralph P. Locke -- Fictions of the opera box / Ruth A. Solie -- "Eros is in the word" : music, homoerotic desire, and the psychopathologies of facism, or the "strangely fruitful intercourse" of Thomas Mann and Benjamin Britten / Daniel Fischlin -- Imagined communities : postnational Canadian opera / Linda Hutcheon and Michael Hutcheon -- Mozart and the politics of intimacy : The marriage of Figaro in Toronto, Paris, and New York / Richard Dellamora -- Strange meeting : Wilfred Owen, Benjamin Britten, Derek Jarman, and the War requiem / Jim Ellis -- Metropolitan opera/suburban identity / Kevin Kopelson -- Divas and disease, mourning and militancy : Diamanda Galas's operatic Plague Mass / Rebecca A. Pope and Susan J. Leonardi.
Call Number
JME 98-468
ISBN
  • 023110944X (alk. paper)
  • 0231109458 (pbk : alk. paper)
LCCN
97019867 /MN/r98
OCLC
36930713
Title
The work of opera : genre, nationhood, and sexual difference / Richard Dellamora and Daniel Fischlin, editors.
Imprint
New York : Columbia University Press, c1997.
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Added Author
Dellamora, Richard.
Fischlin, Daniel.
Research Call Number
JME 98-468
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