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An edition of Modernism and opera (2016)

Modernism and opera

"At first glance, modernism and opera may seem like strange bedfellows--the former hostile to sentiment, the latter wearing its heart on its sleeve. And yet these apparent opposites attract: many operas are aesthetically avant-garde, politically subversive, and socially transgressive. From the proto-modernist strains of Richard Wagner's Parsifal through the twenty-first-century modernism of Kaija Saariaho's L'amour de loin, the duet between modernism and opera, at turns harmonious and dissonant, has been one of the central artistic events of modernity. Despite this centrality, scholars of modernist literature only rarely venture into opera, and music scholars generally return the favor by leaving literature to one side. But opera, that grand cauldron of the arts, demands that scholars, too, share the stage with one another. In Modernism and Opera, Richard Begam and Matthew Wilson Smith bring together musicologists, literary critics, and theater scholars for the first time in a mutual endeavor to trace certain key moments in the history of modernism and opera."--Book jacket.

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2016, Johns Hopkins University Press
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2016
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Table of Contents

World War I and before : crises of gender and theatricality.
Laughing at the redeemer : Kundry and the paradox of Parsifal -- Matthew Wilson Smith
Maeterlinck, Debussy, and modernism -- Daniel Albright
Echoes of the self : cosmic loneliness in Bartók's Duke Bluebeard's castle -- Klára Móricz
Interwar modernism : movement and countermovement.
The great war and its aftermath : Strauss and Hofmannsthal's "third-way modernism" -- Bryan Gilliam
Adorno's shifting Wozzeck -- Bernadette Meyler
Many modernisms, two Makropulos cases : Čapek, Janáček, and the shifting avant-gardes of interwar Prague -- Derek Katz
Schoenberg, modernism, and degeneracy -- Richard Begam
Gertrude Stein, minimalism, and modern opera -- Cyrena N. Pondrom
Opera after World War II : tensions of institutional modernism.
Stravinsky, Auden, and the midcentury modernism of The rake's progress -- Herbert Lindenberger
Gloriana and the new Elizabethan age -- Irene Morra
One saint in eight tableaux : the untimely modernism of Olivier Messiaen's Saint Franc̦ois d'Assise -- Linda Hutcheon and Michael Hutcheon
Saariaho's L'amour de loin : modernist opera in the twenty-first century -- Joy H. Calico.

Edition Notes

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Series
Hopkins studies in modernism, Hopkins studies in modernism

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Dewey Decimal Class
782.109/04
Library of Congress
ML1705 .M63 2016, ML1705.M63 2016

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Pagination
viii, 378 pages
Number of pages
378

ID Numbers

Open Library
OL27233276M
ISBN 10
1421420627
ISBN 13
9781421420622
LCCN
2015047645
OCLC/WorldCat
932003648

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