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Overview"This elegantly written book is a bold attempt to reinterpret the nature of sexual violence and to imagine the possibility of overcoming it. Lawrence Kramer traces today's sexual identities to their nineteenth-century sources, drawing on the music, literature, and thought of the period to show how normal identity both promotes and rationalizes violence against women. To make his case, Kramer uses operatic lovedeaths, Beethoven's ""Kreutzer Sonata"" and the Tolstoy novella named after it; the writings of Walt Whitman and Alfred Lord Tennyson, psychoanalysis, and the logic of dreams. In formal and informal reflections, he explores the self-contradictions of masculinity, the shifting alignments of femininity, authority, and desire, and the interdependency of hetero- and homosexuality. At the same time, he imagines alternatives that could allow gender to be freed from the existing system of polarities that inevitably promote sexual violence. Kramer's writing avoids the conventional dress of intellectual authority and moves between music and literature in a style that is both intimate and effective. He combines informed scholarship with candid personal utterance and makes clear what is at stake in this crucial debate. After the Lovedeath will have a profound impact on anyone interested in new ways to think about gender." Full Product DetailsAuthor: Lawrence KramerPublisher: University of California Press Imprint: University of California Press Edition: Revised ed. Dimensions: Width: 14.00cm , Height: 1.90cm , Length: 21.00cm Weight: 0.408kg ISBN: 9780520224896ISBN 10: 0520224892 Pages: 290 Publication Date: 07 July 2000 Audience: Professional and scholarly , Professional & Vocational Format: Paperback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: Out of stock The supplier is temporarily out of stock of this item. It will be ordered for you on backorder and shipped when it becomes available. Table of ContentsReviewsKramer uses nineteenth-century works of literature [and} music. . . both to develop a theory to explain the existence of sexual violence in our times, and to propose a strategy for mitigating [it]. . . .The result is a book with a remarkable degree of personality, and potential appeal to those working not only in the areas of gender violence and the cultural construction of gender relations, but also to musicologists and those concerned with the literary arts. --Lizzie Graham, Journal of Gender Studies Author InformationLawrence Kramer is Professor of English and Music at Fordham University. He has published three previous books with California: Music and Poetry: The Nineteenth Century and After (1984), Music as Cultural Practice, 1800-1900 (1990), and Classical Music and Postmodern Knowledge (1995). All are available in paperback. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |