{"product_id":"richard-wagner-and-the-anti-semitic-imagination-texts-and-contexts","title":"Richard Wagner and the Anti-Semitic Imagination (TEXTS AND CONTEXTS)","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eISBN:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0803247753\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/strong\u003e Weiner, Marc A.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eCondition:\u003c\/strong\u003e New\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis 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. Marc A. Weiner 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.\"\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Miakarts Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49680993583344,"sku":"NEW0803247753","price":58.78,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0830\/4623\/6400\/files\/21RBEQYBK6L_2c1e69dc-f4d2-4d64-b806-2d4c4da06131.jpg?v=1777980522","url":"https:\/\/ethereallybeautiful.com\/products\/richard-wagner-and-the-anti-semitic-imagination-texts-and-contexts","provider":"Ethereally Beautiful","version":"1.0","type":"link"}