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Opera's second death / Slavoj Žižek and Mladen Dolar.
Van Pelt - Albrecht Music Library ML3858 .Z59 2002
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Žižek, Slavoj.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus, 1756-1791--Themes, motives.
- Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus.
- Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus, 1756-1791. Operas.
- Wagner, Richard, 1813-1883--Themes, motives.
- Wagner, Richard.
- Wagner, Richard, 1813-1883. Operas.
- Wagner, Richard, 1813-1883.
- Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus, 1756-1791.
- Opera.
- Operas--Analysis, appreciation.
- Operas.
- Themes, motives.
- Physical Description:
- ix, 235 pages ; 24 cm
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Routledge, 2002.
- Summary:
- Operas are about the meaning of love and life, and also very much about the meaning of death. Opera as a form, however, might even be dead itself. The last great operas are said to be those written around 1900. But, the psychoanalytic critic and philosopher Slavoj Zizek is quick to point out, 1900 is also the year in which Freud 'invents' psychoanalysis. Can this be a coincidence? "Opera's Second Death" is a passionate exploration of opera---the genre, its masterpieces, and the nature of death. Using a dazzling array of tools, Slavoj Zizek and coauthor Mladen Dolar explore the strange compulsions that overpower characters in Mozart and Wagner, as well as our own desires to die and to go to the opera. Mozart's understanding of psychoanalysis and Wagner's sense of humor are but two of the many surprises in Zizek and Dolar's operatic tour de force. "Opera's Second Death" is an extended aria on a subject that is far from dead.
- Contents:
- If Music be the Food of Love / Mladen Dolar 1
- The Birth of Opera from the Spirit of Absolutism 5
- Acheronta movebo 8
- The Logic of Mercy 19
- Opera buffa 24
- Syntax 28
- Die Entfuhrung aus dem Serail 33
- Figaro 38
- Don Giovanni 45
- The Opera in Philosophy: Mozart and Kierkegaard 50
- La femme machine 58
- Machine in Love 61
- A Philosopher in the Opera 65
- Machine and Enjoyment 69
- The Rationalistic Myth of the Enlightenment 73
- He Is a Man
- Even More, He Is a Prince 80
- Three Continuations 87
- Intermission
- "I do Not Order My Dreams" / Slavoj Zizek 103
- The Death Drive and the Wagnerian Sublime 105
- The Forced Choice 110
- The Disavowal 114
- Chapter 1 "Deeper Than the Day Could Read" 121
- The What-Ifs 121
- Tristan's Journey to the Bottom of the Night 127
- Transgression? No, Thanks! 131
- Wagner's Sexualized Politics 135
- The Moebius Strip 139
- Chapter 2 "The Everlasting Irony of Community" 151
- Wagner with Kierkegaard 151
- Kundry's Laughter ... 156
- ... and Her Kiss 162
- The Feminine versus Woman 169
- Interlude / The Feminine Excess 181
- Chapter 3 Run, Isode, Run 197
- The Cyberspace Tristan 197
- The Morning After 206
- "It quacks, hoots, pants, and gasps" 211
- The Separated Flames 215
- No More Running 219.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 227-231) and index.
- ISBN:
- 0415930162
- 0415930170
- OCLC:
- 46731131
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