Imagining Don Giovanni

Author : Anthony J. Rudel
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781903809204
Total Pages : 271 pages
Book Rating : 4.07/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Imagining Don Giovanni written by Anthony J. Rudel and published by . This book was released on 2001-01-01 with total page 271 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this novel about the making of one of the world's most passionate operas, Mozart's Don Giovanni becomes the collaboration of three remarkable men - Mozart himself, the celebrated poet Lorenzo Da Ponte and the notorious seducer Giacomo Casanova.

Author : Richard Will
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 0226815420
Total Pages : 315 pages
Book Rating : 4.28/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Don Giovanni Captured written by Richard Will and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2022-06-14 with total page 315 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “Don Giovanni” Captured considers the life of a single opera, engaging with the entire history of its recorded performance. Mozart’s opera Don Giovanni has long inspired myths about eros and masculinity. Over time, its performance history has revealed a growing trend toward critique—an increasing effort on the part of performers and directors to highlight the violence and predatoriness of the libertine central character, alongside the suffering and resilience of his female victims. In “Don Giovanni” Captured, Richard Will sets out to analyze more than a century’s worth of recorded performances of the opera, tracing the ways it has changed from one performance to another and from one generation to the next. Will consults audio recordings, starting with wax cylinders and 78s, as well as video recordings, including DVDs, films, and streaming videos. As Will argues, recordings and other media shape our experience of opera as much as live performance does. Seen as a historical record, opera recordings are also a potent reminder of the refusal of works such as Don Giovanni to sit still. By choosing a work with such a rich and complex tradition of interpretation, Will helps us see Don Giovanni as a standard-bearer for evolving ideas about desire and power, both on and off the stage.

Author : Lydia Goehr
Publisher : Columbia University Press
ISBN 13 : 0231137540
Total Pages : 265 pages
Book Rating : 4.46/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Don Giovanni Moment written by Lydia Goehr and published by Columbia University Press. This book was released on 2006 with total page 265 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'The Don Giovanni Movement' examines the aesthetic and moral legacy of Mozart's operatic masterpiece in the literature, philosophy, and culture of the nineteenth century. Deeply rooted in the enlightenment and romanticism, the opera functions as icon andmyth, and its tensions still resonate today.

Author : Bernd Huppauf
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1136603603
Total Pages : 374 pages
Book Rating : 4.00/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Dynamics and Performativity of Imagination written by Bernd Huppauf and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-05-13 with total page 374 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this interdisciplinary anthology, essays study the relationship between the imagination and images both material and mental. Through case studies on a diverse array of topics including photography, film, sports, theater, and anthropology, contributors focus on the role of the creative imagination in seeing and producing images and the imaginary.

Author : Bernard Beatty
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 131723474X
Total Pages : 334 pages
Book Rating : 4.46/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Byron's Don Juan written by Bernard Beatty and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-04-20 with total page 334 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First published in 1985. What sort of poem is Don Juan, and how does it maintain its momentum through its long and often struggling narrative? These are the questions that Bernard Beatty proposes in this subtle and elegant discussion of Byron’s masterwork. The legend of Don Juan was entrenched in European literature and other arts long before it came under Byron’s hands, yet Byron’s treatment of the story is often almost unrecognisably far from its forebears. Beatty indicates how deeply Byron has assimilated his predecessors in order to produce his own work. The sustained argument of this book raises questions of interest not only to students of Byron but of comedy in general, as well as of the place of religious motifs in apparently secularised modes.

Author : Leo Treitler
Publisher : Harvard University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780674591295
Total Pages : 352 pages
Book Rating : 4.91/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Music and the Historical Imagination written by Leo Treitler and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 1989 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Leo Treitler is a central figure in American musicology, both for his writings on medieval and Renaissance music and for his influential work on historical analysis. In this elegant book he develops a powerful statement of what music analysis and criticism in relation to historical understanding can be. His aim is an understanding of the music of the past not only in its own historical context but also as we apprehend it now, and as we assimilate it to our current interests and concerns. He elucidates his views through unique new interpretations of major works from the fifteenth through the twentieth centuries.

Author : Céline Léon
Publisher : Penn State Press
ISBN 13 : 9780271043234
Total Pages : 372 pages
Book Rating : 4.37/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Feminist Interpretations of S¿ren Kierkegaard written by Céline Léon and published by Penn State Press. This book was released on 2010-11-01 with total page 372 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Even though Kierkegaard insisted on the fundamental equality of the sexes before God, his entire production is highly problematic for feminism. To a great degree, this is due to his tendency to write under a pseudonym. In this collection of 14 articles, contributors take varying stands on the question of whether Kierkegaard's work was indicative of misogyny or misogamy. Topics of discussion include Kierkegaard's notion of the "double nature" of woman and of the "silent woman," his idea of masculine indifference, and his use of irony in his critique of the feminine. Paper edition (unseen), $17.95. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR

Author : Nevill Drury
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 1000900096
Total Pages : 198 pages
Book Rating : 4.95/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Don Juan, Mescalito and Modern Magic written by Nevill Drury and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2023-07-28 with total page 198 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First published in 1978, Don Juan, Mescalito and Modern Magic begins with an analysis of the Castaneda material from the viewpoint of its inherently magical content. The author examines the symbiotic gestures, the magical actions and the mind-altering techniques employed by the brujo Don Juan, and then goes on to draw comparisons with two other schools of thought: the psychedelic development of the 1960s and the Western Magical Tradition. The essential aim throughout is to show that there is a basically Western shamanism which uses Western symbols and is easily accessible. The shamanistic practices of the Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn are examined in this context. Considerable emphasis is also placed on mythological aspects associated with out-of-the-body experiences and their relevance to both the Don Juan Mescalito imagery and the Qabalistic and Tarot symbols found in Western Magic. This book will be of interest to students of religion, history and literature.

Author : Paul Thom
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 166691424X
Total Pages : 219 pages
Book Rating : 4.45/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Opera as Art written by Paul Thom and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2022-09-21 with total page 219 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Paul Thom argues that opera is a set of practices framed by the concepts of work, interpretation, performance, and art. His argument is that operatic works have the potential to be art, but so do operatic productions, independently of their value as interpretations of the works they stage.

Author : Northrop Frye
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
ISBN 13 : 0802092098
Total Pages : 608 pages
Book Rating : 4.90/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Educated Imagination and Other Writings on Critical Theory, 1933-1962 written by Northrop Frye and published by University of Toronto Press. This book was released on 2006-01-01 with total page 608 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1933, Northrop Frye was a recent university graduate, beginning to learn his craft as a literary essayist. By 1963, with the publication of The Educated Imagination, he had become an international academic celebrity. In the intervening three decades, Frye wrote widely and prodigiously, but it is in the papers and lectures collected in this installment of the Collected Works of Northrop Frye, that the genesis of a distinguished literary critic can be seen. Here is Frye tracing the first outlines of a literary cosmology that would culminate in The Anatomy of Criticism (1958) and shapeThe Great Code (1982) and Words with Power (1990). At the same time that Frye garnered such international acclaim, he was also a working university teacher, lecturing in the University of Toronto's English Language and Literature program. In her lively introduction, Germaine Warkentin links Frye's evolution as a critic with his love of music, his passionate concern for his students, and his growing professional ambition. The writings included in this volume show how Frye integrated ideas into the work that would consolidate the fame that Fearful Symmetry (1947) had first established.