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E. T. A. Hoffmann, Cosmopolitanism, and the Struggle for German Opera (Hardcover)
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E. T. A. Hoffmann, Cosmopolitanism, and the Struggle for German Opera (Hardcover)
Series: Internationale Forschungen zur Allgemeinen und Vergleichenden Literaturwissenschaft, 192
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In this first monograph on E. T. A. Hoffmann and opera, Francien
Markx examines Hoffmann's writings on opera and the challenges they
pose to established narratives of aesthetic autonomy, the search
for a national opera, and Hoffmann's biography. Markx discusses
Hoffmann's lifelong fascination with opera against the backdrop of
eighteenth-century theater reform, the creation of national
identity, contemporary performance practices and musical and
aesthetic discourses as voiced by C. M. von Weber, A. W. Schlegel,
Heine, and Wagner, among others. The book reconsiders the
traditional view that German opera followed a deterministic
trajectory toward Wagner's Gesamtkunstwerk and reveals a
cosmopolitan spirit in Hoffmann's operatic vision, most notably
exemplified by his controversial advocacy for Spontini in Berlin.
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