Opera : the art of dying
"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"--Jacket
Print Book, English, 2004
Harvard University Press, Cambridge, Mass., 2004
ix, 239 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
9780674013261, 9780674038912, 0674013263, 0674038916
52902423
Music and the "murky death"
The contemplation of death
Eros and Thanatos : Richard Wagner's Tristan und Isolde
"All that is, ends" : living while dying in Wagner's Der Ring des Nibelungen
Orphic rituals of bereavement
"'Tis a consummation devoutly to be wish'd" : staging suicide
The undead