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Mad loves : women and music in Offenbach's Les Contes d'Hoffmann / Heather Hadlock.
| Author/creator | Hadlock, Heather |
| Format | Book |
| Publication Info | Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Press, ©2000. |
| Description | 165 pages : illustrations, music ; 25 cm |
| Subjects |
| Contents | Telling the Tales -- Mesmerizing voices: music, medicine, and the invention of Dr. Miracle -- Song as symptom: Antonia, Olympia, and the Prima Donna Mother -- Offenbach, for posterity -- Reflections on the Venetian Act. |
| Abstract | In an exploration of Jacques Offenbach's final masterpiece, this book shows how Les Contes d'Hoffmann summed up not only the composer's career but also a century of Romantic culture. A strange fusion of irony and profundity, frivolity and nightmare, the opera unfolds as a series of dreamlike episodes, peopled by such archetypes as the Poet, the Beautiful Dying Girl, the Automaton, the Courtesan, and the Mesmerist. The author shows how these episodes comprise a collective unconscious. Her analyses touch on topics ranging from the self-reflexive style of the protagonist and the music, to parallels between nineteenth-century discourses of theater and medical science, to fascination with the hysterical female subject. |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references (pages 149-159) and index. |
| LCCN | 00023688 |
| ISBN | 0691058024 (cl : alk. paper) |
Availability
| Library | Location | Call Number | Status | Item Actions |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Music | Music Stacks | ML410.O41 H33 2000 | ✔ Available | Place Hold |