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Opera, sex, and other vital matters /

Title:
Opera, sex, and other vital matters /
Author:
Robinson, Paul A., 1940-
Published:
Chicago : 2002.
Format:
Book
Institution:
New England Conservatory
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.
Online access:
No online access
Library holdings:
New England Conservatory Spaulding Library
AC8 .R546 2002 – Available