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Reading Opera (Hardcover)
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Reading Opera (Hardcover)
Series: Princeton Legacy Library
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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. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest
print-on-demand technology to again make available previously
out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton
University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of
these important books while presenting them in durable paperback
and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is
to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in
the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press
since its founding in 1905.
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