Reading Opera

Published by Princeton University Press 1988

Reading Opera

Edited by: Arthur Groos and Roger Parker

Volume 28 in the series Princeton Studies in Opera

In the series Princeton Legacy Library

https://doi.org/10.1515/9781400859597

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"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.

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ACKNOWLEDGMENTS Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	vii
INTRODUCTION Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	1
Appropriation in Wagner's Tristan Libretto Arthur Groos Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	12
Boito and F.-V. Hugo's "Magnificent Translation": A Study in the Genesis of the Otello Libretto James A. Hepokoski Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	34
An Unseen Player: Destiny in FelUas et Malisande Susan Youens Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	60
The Origins of Italian Literaturoper: Guglielmo Ratcliff, La figlia di Iorio, Parisina, and Francesca da Rimini Jurgen Maehder Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	92
Erik's Dream and Tannhauser's Journey Carolyn Abbate Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	129
The Languages of Love in Carmen Nelly Furman Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	168
How to Avoid Believing (While Reading Iago's "Credo") Katherine Bergeron Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	184
The Numinous in Gotterdammerung Christopher Wintle Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	200
Musorgsky's Libretti on Historical Themes: From the Two Borises to Khovanshchina Caryl Emerson Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	235
Boito and the 1868 Mefistofele Libretto as a Reform Text William Ashbrook Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	268
On Reading Nineteenth-Century Opera: Verdi through the Looking-Glass Roger Parker Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	288
Strauss and the Pervert Sander L. Gilman Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	306
A Deconstructive Postscript: Reading Libretti and Misreading Opera Paul Robinson Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	328
INDEX Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	347

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