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The Complete Idiot's Guide to Learning Spanish on Your Own

By: Gail Stein,Marc Einsohn

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The Complete Idiot's Guide to Learning Spanish on Your Own

By: Gail Stein,Marc Einsohn

The Complete Idiot's Guide to Learning Spanish on Your Own makes Spanish fun and entertaining - so you don't feel bogged down with a "directory" of words. Feel confident about speaking the language and communicating with native speakers whether you're planning a vacation or preparing for a business trip. In this Complete Idiot's Guide you get enough of the basics that you can put to use immediately; friendly advice in an easy-to-understand format; tips, definitions, and warnings to help you along the way; and clear illustrations that feature everything you need to know!

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ISBN 10

0028610407

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9780028610405

Richard Wagner and the Anti-Semitic Imagination

By: Marc A. Weiner

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Richard Wagner and the Anti-Semitic Imagination

By: Marc A. Weiner

This book addresses one of the most hotly contested debates in contemporary cultural life: the question of how anti-Semitism figures in the operas of Richard Wagner. Until now, scholars have generally acknowledged Wagner's anti-Semitism but have argued that it is irrelevant to the operas themselves. Marc A. Weiner challenges that traditional view by asserting that anti-Semitism is a crucial, pervasive feature in Wagner's operas. Weiner argues that the operas exemplify and contribute to a vast collection of images that are patently anti-Semitic - and that were readily recognized as such by nineteenth-century German audiences. These images were associated particularly with the body. Through a careful examination of Wagner's music, libretti, and stage directions, Weiner reconstructs iconographies of corporeal images - iconographies of the eye, voice, smell, gait, and sexuality - that were essential to the operas and were "associated with anti-Semitism and the longing for an imagined German community".

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