Franz Schubert: Sexuality, Subjectivity, Song

by Lawrence Kramer

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0521542162
• ISBN13: 9780521542166
• Release Date: September 2003
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 196 Pages
• Weight: 0.79 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 7.4" x 9.7"