Opera by Michael Hutcheon

Opera by Michael Hutcheon

Opera is quin-tessentially an art of love and desire, of loss and suffering, of disease and death. This title offers an understanding of both content and context.

"A fascinating interdisciplinary study of the interconnected subtexts of erotic attraction, illness, and death in several 19th- and 20th-century operatic texts.. This is an extraordinary examination of how opera uses the singing body-gendered and sexual-to give voice to the suffering person. Highly recommended."-Library Journal Library Journal "The authors' argument is rich and complex; it draws on source, text and music; it is also medically sound. Opera is quintessentially an art of love and desire, of loss and suffering, of disease and death. Hutcheon and Hutcheon enrich our understanding of both content and context."-Opera News Opera News "Linda and Michael Hutcheon have done a fine job of pulling together medical and literary sources to make sense of the changing depiction of disease in opera... For opera lovers and for anyone interested in seeing good, synthetic reasoning at work, this is a fine study."-Publishers Weekly Publishers Weekly

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.

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ISBN 13	9780803273184
ISBN 10	0803273185
Title	Opera
Author	Michael Hutcheon
Series	Texts And Contexts
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Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	University of Nebraska Press
Year published	1999-03-01
Number of pages	296
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