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Title Practicing progress : the promise and limitations of enlightenment : Festschrift for John A. McCarthy / edited by Richard E. Schade and Dieter Sevin.

Publication Info. Amsterdam ; New York, NY : Rodopi, 2007.

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Description 1 online resource (234 pages) : illustrations.
Physical Medium polychrome
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Series Internationale Forschungen zur allgemeinen und vergleichenden Literaturwissenschaft, 0929-6999 ; 106
Internationale Forschungen zur allgemeinen und vergleichenden Literaturwissenschaft ; 106. 0929-6999
Note Festschrift.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references.
"John McCarthy's publications"-Page 229-234.
Summary The essay reads an Enlightened and modern critique of progress in Mozart's Cos fan tutte. With numerous references to other operas and texts, and with a storyline that emphasizes inevitable, yet mutable aspects of human nature, Cos presents an ambivalent picture of the ways in which even the most disinterested and best-informed attitude toward the past can affect the future. At the same time, the opera seems to embrace the notion of freedom of choice without rejecting tradition or repetition. The essay also comments on the performance of Cos in Zurich in 2000, conducted by Nikolaus Harnoncourt, who often works with authentic period instruments.
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Subject German literature -- 18th century -- History and criticism.
German literature.
Chronological Term 18th century
Subject Authors, German -- 18th century.
Authors, German.
Enlightenment -- Germany.
Enlightenment.
Germany.
Chronological Term 1700 - 1799
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Festschriften.
Festschriften.
Added Author McCarthy, John A. (John Aloysius), 1942-
Schade, Richard E.
Sevin, Dieter.
Other Form: Print version: Practicing progress. Amsterdam ; New York, NY : Rodopi, 2007 9789042021464 9042021462 (OCoLC)91797209
ISBN 9781429481175 (electronic book)
142948117X (electronic book)
9042021462
9789042021464
9789042021464 (paperback)
9042021462 (paperback)