Description
An incisive and impassioned examination of women's treatment in opera.
Catherine Clement analyzes the plots of over thirty prominent operas-Otello and Siegfried to Madame Butterfly and The Magic Flute-through the lenses of feminism and literary theory to unveil the negative messages about women in stories familiar to every opera listener.
About the Author
Catherine Clement has been an academic, a diplomat, and cultural editor of Le Matin. She has written books on structuralism, psychoanalysis, and Marxism and is the author of Syncope: The Philosophy of Rapture and the coauthor, with Helene Cixous, of The Newly Born Woman.
Betsy Wing also translated The Newly Born Woman.Book Information
ISBN 9780816635269
Author Catherine Clement
Format Paperback
Page Count 224
Imprint University of Minnesota Press
Publisher University of Minnesota Press
Dimensions(mm) 229mm * 152mm * 15mm
