Modernist mysteries : Persephone / Tamara Levitz.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Levitz, Tamara, 1962-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Persephone (Greek deity)--Songs and music--History and criticism.

Persephone.

Stravinsky, Igor, 1882-1971. Perséphone.

Stravinsky, Igor.

Gide, André, 1869-1951--Criticism and interpretation.

Gide, André.

Rubinstein, Ida, 1883-1960--Criticism and interpretation.

Rubinstein, Ida.

Mythology, Greek, in music.

Modernism (Music).

Physical Description:

1 online resource (688 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Other Title:

Perséphone

Place of Publication:

Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, c2012.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Here, Levitz demonstrates how a group of collaboratoring artists - Igor Stravinsky, Ida Rubenstein, Jacques Copeau, André Gide and others - used the myth of Perséphone to perform and articulate their most deeply held beliefs about four topics significant to modernism: religion, sexuality, death, and historical memory in art.

Contents:

Cover; Contents; List of Illustrations; List of Musical Examples; Acknowledgments; Abbreviations; Translations; Introduction: Melancholic Modernism; PART ONE: Faith; 1. Gide's Anxiousness: Proserpine/Perséphone; 2. Stravinsky's Dogma; 3. Performing Devotion; PART TWO: Love; 4. André's Masked Pleasures; 5. Igor's Duality; 6. Ida the Sapphic Fetish; 7. Voices from the Crypt; PART THREE: Hope; 8. The Promise of Irreconcilable Difference; Core Bibliography; Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; Q; R; S; T; U; V; W; X; Y; Z

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (viewed on Aug. 24, 2012).

Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.

ISBN:

9786613888877

9781283576420

1283576422

9780199875627

0199875626

OCLC:

808341099

Publisher Number:

2027/heb32759 hdl