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"In Opera: The Art of Dying a physician and a literary theorist bring together scientific and humanistic perspectives on the lessons on living and dying that this extravagant and seemingly artificial art imparts"--Jacket.
"Contrasting the experience of morality in opera to that in tragedy, the Hutcheons find a mote apt analogy in the medieval custom of contemplatio mortis - a dramatized exercise in imagining one's own death that prepared one for...
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"This fascinating book looks at well-known operas in which love, sexual desire, illness, and death are inextricably linked. The result is an unprecedented view of the operas themselves and the societies in which they were created." "The book focuses on operatic representations of disease and on the ways in which operas associate illness with sexuality, gender, and desire. The authors consider the frequent operatic alliance of tuberculosis with female...
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