- Hardcover: 320 pages
- Publisher: Harvard University Press (April 1 1996)
- Language: English
- ISBN-10: 0674127900
- ISBN-13: 978-0674127906
- Product Dimensions: 24.4 x 16.2 x 2.4 cm
- Shipping Weight: 635 g
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: #2,167,019 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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Kallberg is internationally accepted as one of the most knowledgeable writers on Chopin today. This book shows that he is also the most original. It is an extremely successful attempt to open out the study of Chopin into both social criticism and the history of reception...It is certainly the most stimulating book of Chopin criticism I have ever read.
--Charles Rosen
--Charles Rosen
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The complex status of Chopin in our culture--he was a native Pole and adopted Frenchman, and a male composer writing in "feminine" genres--is the subject of Jeffrey Kallberg's absorbing book. Combining social history, literary theory, musicology, and feminist thought, Chopin at the Boundaries is the first book to situate Chopin's music within the construct of his somewhat marginal sexual identity and to explore how this should figure in our understanding of his compositional methods. Through this novel approach, Kallberg reveals a new Chopin, one situated precisely where questions of gender open up into the very important question of genre.
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FINALLY, May 17 2000
By John S. Hilliard - Published on Amazon.com
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This review is from: Chopin at the Boundaries: Sex, History, and Musical Genre (Hardcover)
We are all aware of the greatness of Chopin. A few are privy to the greatness of George Sand. Here finally we learn a little of the chemistry which flowed between these two giants of the artistic Paris in the 1840's; also importantly, the details, clearly presented, of the questions concerning Chopin's music of his last years. This is a calm and reasoned book, showing the author's comprehensive knowledge of the subject. This is not a biography per se, rather a set of vignettes on particulars of Chopin's life and gorgeous music. If you desire some brilliant and clear-headed discussion of his gender ambiguity as a person and as expressed in his Nocturnes, I encourage you to read this fine work.
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Sand was a killer!!!, April 17 2007
By Mr Bassil A MARDELLI "Antoun" - Published on Amazon.com
This review is from: Chopin at the Boundaries: Sex, History, and Musical Genre (Paperback)
For instance, Aurore Dupin, pseudonym George Sand, the French novelist - later Baroness Dudevant - who wrote in masculine genres, was grotesque in her absurd ideas of love and she tortured the Polish Chopin who mainly composed in feminine styles.Chopin must have felt her mind was a region utterly difficult to penetrate under the best of circumstances (she was six years his senior) hence the approaches he made to her daughter Solenge.
Chopin, fearing to be in the shadow of the strong willed George Sand of aristocratic lineage (through her father) and a distant relative of Louis XVI, would have none of it. Both were unhappily powerless.
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