Reading Opera / Arthur Groos, Roger Parker.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Groos, Arthur, editor.

Parker, Roger, editor.

Series:

Princeton Studies in Opera ; 23

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Music and literature.

Libretto.

Genre:

Electronic books.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (363 pages) : music.

Edition:

Course Book

Place of Publication:

Princeton, NJ : Princeton University Press, [2014]

Language Note:

English

Summary:

"Libretto-bashing has a distinguished tradition in the blood sport of opera," 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.

Contents:

Frontmatter

CONTENTS

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

INTRODUCTION

Appropriation in Wagner's Tristan Libretto / Groos, Arthur

Boito and F.-V. Hugo's "Magnificent Translation": A Study in the Genesis of the Otello Libretto / Hepokoski, James A.

An Unseen Player: Destiny in FelUas et Malisande / Youens, Susan

The Origins of Italian Literaturoper: Guglielmo Ratcliff, La figlia di Iorio, Parisina, and Francesca da Rimini / Maehder, Jurgen

Erik's Dream and Tannhauser's Journey / Abbate, Carolyn

The Languages of Love in Carmen / Furman, Nelly

How to Avoid Believing (While Reading Iago's "Credo") / Bergeron, Katherine

The Numinous in Gotterdammerung / Wintle, Christopher

Musorgsky's Libretti on Historical Themes: From the Two Borises to Khovanshchina / Emerson, Caryl

Boito and the 1868 Mefistofele Libretto as a Reform Text / Ashbrook, William

On Reading Nineteenth-Century Opera: Verdi through the Looking-Glass / Parker, Roger

Strauss and the Pervert / Gilman, Sander L.

A Deconstructive Postscript: Reading Libretti and Misreading Opera / Robinson, Paul

INDEX

Notes:

Most of the essays presented at a conference held at Cornell University, Oct. 1986.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 08. Jul 2019)

ISBN:

9780691602677

0691602670

9780691632131

0691632138

9780691027098

0691027099

9781400859597

140085959X

OCLC:

889253246