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Don Giovanni's Reasons: Thoughts on a masterpiece (Paperback, New edition)
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Don Giovanni's Reasons: Thoughts on a masterpiece (Paperback, New edition)
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Although Mozart's Don Giovanni (1787) is the most analysed of all
operas, Lorenzo Da Ponte's libretto has rarely been studied as a
work of poetry in its own right. The author argues that the
libretto, rather than perpetuating the conservative religious
morality implicit in the story of Don Juan, subjects our culture's
myth of human sexuality to a critical rewriting. Combining poetic
close reading with approaches drawn from linguistics,
psychoanalysis, anthropology, political theory, legal history,
intellectual history, literary history, art history and theatrical
performance analysis, she studies the Don Giovanni libretto as a
radical political text of the Late Enlightenment, which has lost
none of its ability to provoke. The questions it raises concerning
the nature of compassion, seduction and violence, and the autonomy
and responsibility of the individual, are still highly relevant for
us today.
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