Reading Opera (eBook)

Arthur Groos, Roger L. Parker (Herausgeber)

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2014
Princeton University Press (Verlag)
9781400859597 (ISBN)

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"e;Libretto-bashing has a distinguished tradition in the blood sport of opera,"e; writes Arthur Groos in the introduction to this broad survey of critical approaches to that much-maligned genre. To examine, and to challenge, the long-standing prejudice against libretti and the scholarly tradition that has, until recently, reiterated it, Groos and Roger Parker have commissioned thirteen stimulating essays by musicologists, literary critics, and historians. Taken as a whole, the volume demonstrates that libretti are now very much within the purview of contemporary humanistic scholarship. Libretti pose questions of intertextuality, transposition of genre, and reception history. They invite a broad spectrum of contemporary reading strategies ranging from the formalistic to the feminist. And as texts for music they raise issues in the relation between the two mediums and their respective traditions. Reading Opera will be of value to anyone with a serious interest in opera and contemporary opera criticism. The essays cover the period from the early nineteenth to the early twentieth centuries, with a particular focus on works of the later nineteenth century. The contributors are Carolyn Abbate, William Ashbrook, Katherine Bergeron, Caryl Emerson, Nelly Furman, Sander L. Gilman, Arthur Groos, James A. Hepokoski, Jurgen Maehder, Roger Parker, Paul Robinson, Christopher Wintle, and Susan Youens.Originally published in 1988.The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 14.7.2014
• Reihe/Serie: Princeton Legacy Library
• Reihe/Serie: Princeton Legacy Library
• Reihe/Serie: Princeton Studies in Opera
• Reihe/Serie: Princeton Studies in Opera
• Verlagsort: Princeton
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Musik ► Klassik / Oper / Musical
• Schlagworte: afterword • Annotation • arson • Atheism • Ballade (forme fixe) • behalf • Binary Opposition • Boris Godunov (opera) • Bourgeoisie • Catherine Porter • Charles Gounod • Clarinet • Claude Debussy • confusion of tongues • continuous function • Corn Laws • Cosima Wagner • Das Ich • Deconstruction • Degree (music) • Devotional song • diminutive • Division of Labour • Dmitri Shostakovich • dysentery • Example (musician) • Folk music • Friedrich Meinecke • Frustration • Gesamtkunstwerk • Giuseppe Giacosa • G. (novel) • historical figure • Human Sexual Activity • Ideology • Imagery • In Pursuit • Instance (computer science) • Isoperimetric inequality • Jon Vickers • Journeyman • Journey to the East • Julia Kristeva • Karl Mannheim • Khovanshchina • La figlia di Iorio • Lawrence Tibbett • libidinal economy • Libretto • L'Italiana in Algeri • Luther Bible • Mathematical Theory • Maurice Maeterlinck • Mefistofele • Melodramma • Meromorphic Function • Michael Tippett • Modest Mussorgsky • Mutual Intelligibility • neologism • newspaper • N. (novella) • optimism • Otello • Otello (Rossini) • Overtone • Parzival • Pedant • Persecution • pessimism • phenomenon • Poetry • Principle • Project A • pronoun • proverb • Pulley • Reinhart Koselleck • Richard Wagner • ridicule • Russian opera • secondary source • Self-Image • Social Class • Social Criticism • social perception • stanza • Strophe • Symbolism (arts) • Tannhäuser (opera) • theory • The Remaining • The Second Time • tonality • tristan and iseult • Tristan chord • unrest • Vienna State Opera • Vladimir Stasov • vowel
• ISBN-13: 9781400859597 / 9781400859597