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...
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| Series: | Hopkins studies in modernism.
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Table of Contents:
- 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
- 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
- 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 François d'Assise / Linda Hutcheon and Michael Hutcheon
- Saariaho's L'amour de loin : modernist opera in the twenty-first century / Joy H. Calico.