| Description |
1 online resource (165 pages) : illustrations. |
| Physical Medium |
polychrome |
| Description |
text file |
| Series |
Princeton studies in opera
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Princeton studies in opera.
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| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references, discography (page 158), videography (pages 159), and index. |
| Contents |
Telling the Tales -- Mesmerizing voices: music, medicine, and the invention of Dr. Miracle -- Song as symptom: Antonia, Olympia, and the Prima Donna Mother -- Offenbach, for posterity -- Reflections on the Venetian Act. |
| Summary |
"In an exploration of Jacques Offenbach's final masterpiece, Heather Hadlock shows how Les Contes d'Hoffmann summed up not only the composer's career but also a century of Romantic culture. A strange fusion of irony and profundity, frivolity and nightmare, the opera unfolds as a series of dreamlike episodes, peopled by such archetypes as the Poet, the Beautiful Dying Girl, the Automaton, the Courtesan, and the Mesmerist. Hadlock shows how these episodes comprise a collective unconscious. Her analyses touch on topics ranging from the self-reflexive style of the protagonist and the music, to parallels between nineteenth-century discourses of theater and medical science, to fascination with the hysterical female subject."--Jacket. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Language |
English. |
| Subject |
Offenbach, Jacques, 1819-1880. Contes d'Hoffmann.
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Offenbach, Jacques, 1819-1880. Contes d'Hoffmann. |
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Contes d'Hoffmann (Offenbach, Jacques) |
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Offenbach, Jacques. Contes d'Hoffmann. |
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Women in opera.
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Women in opera. |
| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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Electronic books.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Hadlock, Heather. Mad loves 0691058024 (DLC) 00023688 (OCoLC)43540918 |
| ISBN |
9781400866724 electronic book |
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1400866723 electronic book |
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0691058024 |
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9780691058023 |
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