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245 00 a| Reading opera /c| edited by Arthur Groos and Roger Parker.;

300 a| vii, 352 pages :b| music ;c| 24 cm;

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

504 a| Includes bibliographical references and index.;

520 a| "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, the editors 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. This book 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.;

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Reading opera / edited by Arthur Groos and Roger Parker.

Other author	Groos, Arthur, editor.
Other author	Parker, Roger, 1951- editor.
Format	Book
Publication Info	Princeton, NJ : Princeton University Press, ©1988.
Description	vii, 352 pages : music ; 24 cm
Subjects	Libretto. Music and literature.

Contents	Appropriation in Wagner's Tristan libretto / Arthur Groos -- Boito and F.-V. Hugo's "magnificent translation": a study in the genesis of the Otello libretto / James A. Hepokoski -- An unseen player: destiny in Pelléas et Mélisande / Susan Youens -- The origins of Italian literaturoper: Guglielmo Ratcliff, La figlia di Iorio, Parisina, and Francesca da Rimini / Jürgen Maehder -- Erik's dream and Tannhäuser's journey / Carolyn Abbate -- The languages of love in Carmen / Nelly Furman -- How to avoid believing (while reading Iago's "Credo") / Katherine Bergeron -- The numinous in Götterdämmerung / Christopher Wintle -- Musorgsky's libretti on historical themes: from the two Borises to Khovanshchina / Caryl Emerson -- Boito and the 1868 Mefistofele libretto as a reform text / William Ashbrook -- On reading nineteenth-century opera: Verdi through the looking-glass / Roger Parker -- Strauss and the pervert / Sander L. Gilman -- A deconstructive postscript: reading libretti and misreading opera / Paul Robinson.
Abstract	"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, the editors 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. This book 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.
General note	Most of the essays presented at a conference held at Cornell University, Oct. 1986.
Bibliography note	Includes bibliographical references and index.
LCCN	88025984
ISBN	0691091323 (alk. paper) :

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