Opera Through Other Eyes - Hardcover

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0804722390 ISBN 13: 9780804722391

Publisher: Stanford University Press, 1994

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

This collection of eight essays introduces literary and cultural theorists into the domain of operatic textual analysis, a domain that until very recently has been a bastion of astonishingly conservative theory penned largely by musicologists. A notable feature of this volume is the first English translation of 'Burgerliche Oper' ('Bourgeois Opera'), a major work of interdisciplinary operatic analysis by Theodor Adorno. Beginning with Adorno's piece, the essays offer a broad variety of contemporary critical approaches ranging from the Frankfurt School through Lacanian psychoanalysis and post-structuralism to discourse analysis. The essays vary in focus from readings of individual operas (from Monteverdi and Striggio's Orfeo [1607] to John Adams and Alice Goodman's Nixon in China [1987]) to problems of the canon and operatic textuality per se.

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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.

Edition details

• Publisher: Stanford University Press
• Publication date: 1994
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0804722390
• ISBN 13: 9780804722391
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 288
• Editor: Levin David J.