Herbert Lindenberger

Situating Opera

Period, Genre, Reception

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 324
• Erscheinungstermin: 27. Juli 2011
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 24mm
• Gewicht: 680g
• ISBN-13: 9780521199896
• ISBN-10: 0521199891
• Artikelnr.: 30621438

Autorenporträt

Herbert Lindenberger is Avalon Professor of Humanities Emeritus at Stanford University. He is the author of Opera in History: From Monteverdi to Cage (1998), The Literature in History: On Genre, Values, Institutions (1990), Opera: The Extravagant Art (1984), and Saul's Fall: A Critical Fiction (1979).

Inhaltsangabe

Prologue. Why opera? Why (how, where) situate?
1. Anatomy of a war horse: Il trovatore from A to Z
2. On opera and society (assuming a relationship)
3. Opera and the novel: antithetical or complementary?
4. Opera by other means
5. Opera and/as lyric
6. From separatism to unity: aesthetic theorizing from Reynolds to Wagner
7. Toward a characterization of modernist opera
8. Anti-theatricality in twentieth-century opera
9. A brief consumer's history of opera
Epilogue. Why (what, how, if) opera studies?
Works cited.