Opera: Desire, Disease, Death: Desire, Disease and Death (Texts and Contexts, V. 17) - Hardcover

Hutcheon, Linda; Hutcheon, Michael

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0803223676 ISBN 13: 9780803223677

Verlag: University of Nebraska Press, 1996

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This fascinating book looks at well-known operas in which love, sexual desire, illness, and death are inextricably linked. The result is an unprecedented view of the operas themselves and the societies in which they were created.
The book focuses on operatic representations of disease and on the ways in which operas associate illness with sexuality, gender, and desire. The authors consider the frequent operatic alliance of tuberculosis with female sexuality (as in Verdi's La Traviata and Puccini's La Boheme); the relation between venereal disease and the moral transgression or failure of male heroes (as in Wagner's Parsifal and Stravinsky's The Rake's Progress); and the association of cholera and homosexual desire in Berg's Lulu and Britten's Death in Venice. A virtuosic chapter considers how assorted operas have identified smoking with sexuality and rebellion. The conclusion considers parallels between earlier operatic representations of disease and recent cultural and scientific representations of AIDS.

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Über die Autorinnen und Autoren

Linda Hutcheon is a professor of English and comparative literature at the University of Toronto. She is the author of, most recently, Irony’s Edge: The Theory and Politics of Irony. Michael Hutcheon, M.D., is a professor of medicine at the University of Toronto. His many articles have appeared in American Review of Respiratory Disease and other journals.

Linda Hutcheon is a professor of English and comparative literature at the University of Toronto.

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: University of Nebraska Press
• Erscheinungsdatum: 1996
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 0803223676
• ISBN 13: 9780803223677
• Einband: Gebundene Ausgabe
• Anzahl der Seiten: 294
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