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{{BBSZ}}<BR>[[Image:OperasSecondDeath.jpg |right200px|framethumb|Book Cover]]=====Book Description=====[[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====={| style="width:100%; border:1px solid #aaa;text-align:left; line-height:2.0em; padding-left:10px;"|width="100%"| [[Slavoj Žižek|Zizek, SSlavoj]]. and Dolar, M. (2002) '''''[[Opera's Second Death, ]]'''''. [[London and NewYork]]: Routledge.If Hitchcock's films are the most common source of examples inŽižek's booksNovember 21, 2001, 1st edition, Hardcover, 256 pages, [[Language]]: [[English]], Wagner's operas probably run them a close secondISBN: 0415930162.Picking up on this exemplary obsession and expanding his analysis of<small>Buy it from Tarrying with the Negativeat [http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0415930162/nosubject-20/ Amazon.com], Žižek here devotes half a book tothe subject [http://www.amazon.ca/exec/obidos/ASIN/0415930162/nosub07- the other half being Dolar's discussion of Mozart's operas20/ Amazon.What is slightly unusual about this book is the subtle change of emphasiswhereca], instead of using Wagnerian opera as a means to explain Lacaniantheory[http://www.amazon.de/exec/obidos/ASIN/0415930162/nosub-21/ Amazon.de], Žižek is more intent here on using Lacanian theory to explainWagnerian opera[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]. This perhaps makes the book a more relaxing read</small>than the standard Žižekian work, as the reader is no longer fraughtwith the expectation that each example will have to bear the weightof a demanding Lacanian theorem.|}
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