Opera: The Art of Dying (repost)
Opera: The Art of Dying By Linda Hutcheon, Michael Hutcheon
Publisher: Harvard University Press 2004 | 256 Pages | ISBN: 0674013263 | PDF | 1 MB
Publisher: Harvard University Press 2004 | 256 Pages | ISBN: 0674013263 | PDF | 1 MB
Our modern narratives of science and technology can only go so far in teaching us about the death that we must all finally face. Can an act of the imagination, in the form of opera, take us the rest of the way? Might opera, an art form steeped in death, teach us how to die, as this provocative work suggests? 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.