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Opera, sex, and other vital matters / Paul Robinson.
| Author/creator | Robinson, Paul A., 1940- |
| Format | Book |
| Publication Info | Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 2002. |
| Description | xviii, 332 pages ; 23 cm |
| Subjects |
| Contents | 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. |
| General note | Includes index. |
| LCCN | 2001004444 |
| ISBN | 0226721825 (cloth : alk. paper) |
| ISBN | 0226721833 (pbk. : alk. paper) |