Opera and the Culture of Fascism

Tambling, Jeremy

ISBN 10: 0198165668 / ISBN 13: 9780198165668

Published by Clarendon Press, 1996

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Opera and the Culture of Fascism
• Publisher: Clarendon Press
• Publication Date: 1996
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0198165668
• ISBN 13: 9780198165668
• Binding: Hardcover
• Condition: Good

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Synopsis

Tambling draws on the insights of Adorno, Benjamin, Theweleit, Bataille, Kristeva, and others to read nineteenth- and early twentieth-century opera as part of a culture which produced fascism as a crisis-state, and threatened to extinguish the genre as an influential and contemporary form of high art. Examining over a dozen operas in detail, Tambling discovers an ideology with both reactionary and revolutionary potentials.

About the Author

Jeremy Tambling is Professor in the Department of Comparative Literature, University of Hong Kong.