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Synopsis
This collection of 8 essays introduces literary and cultural theorists into the domain of operatic textual analysis, long the exclusive preserve of musicologists. The contributors include some of the most distinguished critics of the past 30 years, most of them writing about opera for the first time.
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Synopsis
With contributions from some of the main literary and cultural critics of the last 20 years, this book looks at opera as a whole, discussing the music and the staging but not at the expense of what the works actually mean. It discusses Wagner, Verdi, Puccini, Berg and Mozart, and the writers include Theodor Adorno, Jean Starobinski, Catherine Clement, Avital Ronell and Samuel Weber.
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This collection of eight essays introduces literary and cultural theorists into the domain of operatic textual analysis, offering a fresh look at underexamined terrain.
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