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In Georges Bizet's Carmen-the latest volume in the Oxford Keynotes series-author Nelly Furman explores the evolution of Carmen's story and its meaning, illuminating how the titular heroine has maintained her status as a universally recognizable cultural icon.
About the author
Nelly Furman is a scholar of French nineteenth- and twentieth-century literature with an interest in textual criticism, women, and feminist studies. She currently serves as Director of both the Office of Programs and the Association of Departments of Foreign Languages at the Modern Language Association, and is a Professor Emerita at Cornell University. She is the author of La Revue des Deux Mondes et le Romantisme (1831-1848) (1975) and co-editor of Women and Language in Literature and Society (1980).
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In Georges Bizet's Carmen--the latest volume in the Oxford Keynotes series--author Nelly Furman explores the evolution of Carmen's story and its meaning, illuminating how the titular heroine has maintained her status as a universally recognizable cultural icon.
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In this long-awaited and definitive study, Nelly Furman presents the Carmen story as the central myth of modernity — not of its founding but of its simultaneous unfounding, in which the femme fatale emerges as a projection of anxieties of race, gender, and other 'others.' As readable as it is refined, this wise and wonderful book teaches us not only about opera, film, literature, and language, but about ourselves.
