Opera: The Art of Dying

by Linda Hutcheon and Michael Hutcheon

Our modern narratives of science and technology can only go so far in teaching us about the death that we must all finally face. Can an act of the imagination, in the form of opera, take us the rest of the way? Might opera, an art form steeped in death, teach us how to die, as this provocative work suggests? In Opera: The Art of Dying a physician and a literary theorist bring together scientific and humanistic perspectives on the lessons...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0674335619
• ISBN13: 9780674335615
• Release Date: February 2004
• Publisher: Harvard University Press
• Length: 239 Pages
• Weight: 1.17 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.1" x 9.2"