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Beethoven’s Kiss: Pianism, Perversion, and the Mastery of Desire
Kevin Kopelson
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Description for Beethoven’s Kiss: Pianism, Perversion, and the Mastery of Desire
Paperback. This is an interdisciplinary study of romantic pianism in relation to gender and sexuality. Confronting problems posed by keyboard players the author underscores the extent to which the piano resonates with intimations of both homosexuality and mortality. Num Pages: 212 pages, 1 half-tone. BIC Classification: AVA; AVRG; JFSJ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 15. Weight in Grams: 246.
In Beethoven's Kiss, Kevin Kopelson takes you on a journey through a unique literary style which is both scholarly and meditative. It interweaves the issues of gender, sexuality and erotic romanticism and presents them against the backdrop of romantic pianism. Exploring quasi-sexual myths of the nineteenth century, Beethoven's Kiss takes a long look at the origin and consequences of those myths.
Product Details
Publisher
Stanford University Press United States
Number of pages
212
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1996
Condition
New
Number of Pages
212
Place of Publication
Palo Alto, United States
ISBN
9780804725989
SKU
V9780804725989
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99-50
About Kevin Kopelson
Kevin Kopelson is Assistant Professor of English at the University of Iowa and the author of Love's Litany: The Writing of Modern Homoerotics (Stanford, l994). He trained as a classical pianist at the Juilliard school of music.
Reviews for Beethoven’s Kiss: Pianism, Perversion, and the Mastery of Desire
"Beethoven's Kiss is a beguiling, insightful, sometimes funny, sometimes moving study. The book is put together performatively, as a memoir-meditation, rather than a piece of traditional scholarship. But its tacit scholarly backing is solid and up to date, and its unorthodox form is under the control of a finely tuned prose style."—Lawrence Kramer, Fordham University