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Franz Schubert

Catalogue No: 9780521542166
The first book to examine Schubert’s songs as active shaping forces in the culture of their era.
£37.99

Lawrence Kramer


This is the first book to examine Schubert’s songs as active shaping forces in the culture of their era rather than as mere reflections of it. Responding to rising new forms of social organisation, Schubert discovered that songs could serve as a medium for shuffling and reshuffling the basic building blocks of identity and desire, especially sexual desire. His songs project a kaleidoscopic array of unexpected human types, all of whom are eligible for a sympathetic response, even the strangest and most disconcerting. Schubert sought to validate these subjective types without subordinating them to a central social or sexual norm. The book describes and contextualises this process and tracks it concretely in a wide variety of songs. Combining close attention to both music and poetry, the book addresses both specialists and non-specialists in a lively, accessible style unburdened by excessive jargon.


Bibliographic Details


1 b/w illus. 28 music examples


Contents

  • 1. Interpretive dramaturgy and social drama: Schuberts Erster Verlust
  • 2. Undisciplined song: scorings of the subject
  • 3. Mermaid fancies: Schuberts trout and the wish to be a woman
  • 4. The Ganymed complex: Schuberts songs and the homosexual imagination
  • 5. Masochism and domesticity in Die schöne Müllerin
  • 6. Revenants: masculine thresholds in Schubert, James, and Freud.
9780521542166

Specifications

Series
Cambridge Studies
Product Format
Book
Publication Date
18/09/2003
ISBN
9780521542166 (0521542162)
Language
English
Author
Lawrence Kramer