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010 a| 94012187;

020 a| 0803247753 (cloth : alk. paper);

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050 00 a| ML410.W19b| W23 1995;

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100 1 a| Weiner, Marc A.=| ^A321094;

245 10 a| Richard Wagner and the anti-Semitic imagination /c| Marc A. Weiner.;

300 a| xii, 439 pages :b| illustrations ;c| 25 cm.;

336 a| text2| rdacontent;

337 a| unmediated2| rdamedia;

338 a| volume2| rdacarrier;

490 1 a| Texts and contexts ;v| v. 12;

504 a| Includes bibliographical references (pages 393-421) and index.;

505 0 a| Introduction: Wagner and the body -- The eyes of the Volk -- Voices: Coloratura versus tief und innig. Mussorgsky's Nibelungs ; Wagner's 'Pilgrimage to Beethoven' ; The invention of the Heldentenor ; The voice of the effeminate Jew -- Smells: The Teutonic Duft and the foetor judaicus. Smells and Wagner's music ; Smells in Wagner's sources ; The odor of the Orient -- Feet: Clubfoot, heroic foot. The Devil and the Jew -- Icons of degeneration. The eyes of the onanist, or the philosopher who masturbated -- Afterword: Wagner's embodiment.;

520 a| 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. The author 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.";

600 10 a| Wagner, Richard,d| 1813-1883x| Symbolism.=| ^A364503;

650 0 a| Antisemitism.=| ^A42319;

650 0 a| Human body in literature.=| ^A133780;

830 0 a| Texts and contexts ;v| v. 12.=| ^A282141;

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Richard Wagner and the anti-Semitic imagination / Marc A. Weiner.

Author/creator	Weiner, Marc A.
Format	Book
Publication Info	Lincoln : University of Nebraska Press, ©1995.
Description	xii, 439 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm.
Subjects	Wagner, Richard, 1813-1883--Symbolism. Antisemitism. Human body in literature.

Series	Texts and contexts ; v. 12 Texts and contexts ; v. 12. ^A282141
Contents	Introduction: Wagner and the body -- The eyes of the Volk -- Voices: Coloratura versus tief und innig. Mussorgsky's Nibelungs ; Wagner's 'Pilgrimage to Beethoven' ; The invention of the Heldentenor ; The voice of the effeminate Jew -- Smells: The Teutonic Duft and the foetor judaicus. Smells and Wagner's music ; Smells in Wagner's sources ; The odor of the Orient -- Feet: Clubfoot, heroic foot. The Devil and the Jew -- Icons of degeneration. The eyes of the onanist, or the philosopher who masturbated -- Afterword: Wagner's embodiment.
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. The author 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."
Bibliography note	Includes bibliographical references (pages 393-421) and index.
LCCN	94012187
ISBN	0803247753 (cloth : alk. paper)

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