Franz Schubert
Sexuality, Subjectivity, Song

 

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Franz Schubert
Sexuality, Subjectivity, Song

by Lawrence Kramer (Author)
Ian Bent (Series Edited)

 

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ISBN: 9780521542166

 

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The first book to examine Schubert's songs as active shaping forces in the culture of their era.


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.


 

ISBN 521542162
ISBN13 9780521542166
Publisher Cambridge University Press
Format Paperback
Publication date 18/09/2003
Pages 196
Weight (grammes) 360
Published in United Kingdom
Height (mm) 247
Width (mm) 174

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