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Žižek, S. and Dolar, M. (2002) Opera's Second Death, London and New
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York: Routledge.
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If Hitchcock's films are the most common source of examples in
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Opera's Second Death is a passionate exploration of opera - the genre, its masterpieces, and the nature of death. Using a dazzling array of tools, Slavoj Zizek and coauthor Mladen Dolar explore the strange compulsions that overpower characters in Mozart and Wagner, as well as our own desires to die and to go to the opera.
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Žižek's books, Wagner's operas probably run them a close second.
 
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Picking up on this exemplary obsession and expanding his analysis of
 
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it from Tarrying with the Negative, Žižek here devotes half a book to
 
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the subject    - the other half being Dolar's discussion of Mozart's operas.
 
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What is slightly unusual about this book is the subtle change of emphasis
 
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where, instead of using Wagnerian opera as a means to explain Lacanian
 
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theory, Žižek is more intent here on using Lacanian theory to explain
 
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Wagnerian opera. This perhaps makes the book a more relaxing read
 
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than the standard Žižekian work, as the reader is no longer fraught
 
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with the expectation that each example will have to bear the weight
 
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of a demanding Lacanian theorem.
 
  
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|width="100%"| [[Slavoj Žižek|Zizek, Slavoj]]. '''''[[Opera's Second Death]]'''''. London: Routledge. November 21, 2001, 1st edition, Hardcover, 256 pages, Language: English, ISBN: 0415930162. <small>Buy it at [http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0415930162/nosubject-20/ Amazon.com], [http://www.amazon.ca/exec/obidos/ASIN/0415930162/nosub07-20/ Amazon.ca], [http://www.amazon.de/exec/obidos/ASIN/0415930162/nosub-21/ Amazon.de], [http://www.amazon.co.uk/exec/obidos/ASIN/0415930162/nosubjencyofl-21/ Amazon.co.uk] or [http://www.amazon.fr/exec/obidos/ASIN/0415930162/nosub04-21/ Amazon.fr].</small>
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Books by Slavoj Žižek

Book Description
Book Cover

Opera's Second Death is a passionate exploration of opera - the genre, its masterpieces, and the nature of death. Using a dazzling array of tools, Slavoj Zizek and coauthor Mladen Dolar explore the strange compulsions that overpower characters in Mozart and Wagner, as well as our own desires to die and to go to the opera.

Product Details
Zizek, Slavoj. Opera's Second Death. London: Routledge. November 21, 2001, 1st edition, Hardcover, 256 pages, Language: English, ISBN: 0415930162. Buy it at Amazon.com, Amazon.ca, Amazon.de, Amazon.co.uk or Amazon.fr.
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