E. T. A. Hoffmann, cosmopolitanism, and the struggle for German opera / / by Francien Markx.
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 o...
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| Superior document: | Internationale Forschungen zur Allgemeinen und Vergleichenden Literaturwissenschaft, Volume 192 |
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| Place / Publishing House: | Leiden, Netherlands ;, Boston, [Massachusetts] : : Brill Rodopi,, 2016. ©2016 |
| Year of Publication: | 2016 |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Internationale Forschungen zur allgemeinen und vergleichenden Literaturwissenschaft ;
Volume 192. |
| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (496 p.) |
| Notes: | Description based upon print version of record. |
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Table of Contents:
- Preliminary Material
- Ritter Gluck: On The Art of Judging Opera
- Don Juan: Reflections on (Performing) Mozart’s Don Giovanni
- Poet and Composer: Operatic Insights of an Insider
- ‘Patriotic Acts’: Undine on the Berlin Stage ossia Accomplishments of a Trio (Fouqué, Hoffmann, and Schinkel)
- Berlin Reviews I: Dramaturgisches Wochenblatt and Vossische Zeitung
- Berlin Reviews II: Standing up for Spontini
- Falling Silent: The Freischütz Controversy
- Postlude
- Bibliography
- Index.