Books by Marc Weiner

A basic tenet of literary studies is that aesthetic structures are politically significant because they represent an artist's response to the political implications of cultural codes with which the recipient of the modern work is also acquainted

Ranging from 1900 to Doctor Faustus (1947), this study sets the stage by examining debates that conflated such issues as national identity, racism, populism, the role of the sexes, and xenophobia with musical texts. It also examines social and political issues associated with music in narratives of German modernism.