Opera, sex, and other vital matters
By: Paul Robinson.
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Published: 2002
Place of publication: Chicago
Language: eng
Number of pages: 332
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: A symposium on opera and ideas with Bernard Williams and Peter Kivy; title: Reading libretti and misreading opera; title: The musical enlightenment : Haydn's Creation and Mozart's Magic flute; title: Fidelio and the French Revolution; title: Verdi's Fathers and daughters; title: Is Aida an orientalist opera?; title: The Wagner problem; title: Richard Strauss, ambivalent modernist; title: The opera queen : a voice from the closet; title: Homosexuality : choice or destiny?; title: Sex studies and sex books : four reviews; title: For the love of big brother : the sexual politics of Nineteen eighty-four; title: "Dear Paul" : an exchange between student and teacher; title: Three essays on Freud; title: Freud under siege; title: Freud and the feminists; title: Freud and homosexuality; title: H. Stuart Hughes and intellectual history; title: Three essays on writing; title: Why write?; title: Lost causes; title: The philosophy of punctuation; title: Cats.