The Don Giovanni moment
Subtitle: essays on the legacy of an opera
By: editors, Lydia Goehr and Daniel Herwitz.
Contributors: Goehr, Lydia.; Herwitz, Daniel Alan, 1955-
Series: Columbia themes in philosophy, social criticism, and the arts
Publisher: Columbia University Press
Published: 2006
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 238
Subjects: Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus, 1756-1791; Don Juan (Legendary character) in literature; Music and literature; Opera
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: Don Giovanni : "And what communion hath light with darkness?" / Ingrid Rowland; title: Don Juan and Faust : on the interaction between two literary myths / Ernst Osterkamp; title: "Hidden secrets of the self" : E.T.A. Hoffmann's reading of Don Giovanni / Richard Eldridge; title: Don Juan in Nicholas' Russia (Pushkin's The stone guest) / Boris Gasparov; title: Mörike's Mozart and the scent of a woman / Hans Rudolf Vaget; title: The Gothic libertine : the shadow of Don Giovanni in German romanticism / Thomas Grey; title: Don Juan as an idea / Bernard Williams; title: Kierkegaard writes his opera / Daniel Herwitz; title: The curse and promise of the absolutely musical : Tristan and Isolde and Don Giovanni / Lydia Goehr; title: Authority and judgment in Mozart's Don Giovanni and Wagner's ring / Philip Kitcher and Richard Schacht; title: Mozart's Don Giovanni in Shaw's comedy / Agnes Heller; title: Giovanni auf Naxos / Brian Soucek; title: Homage to Adorno's 'Homage to Zerlina' / Berthold Hoeckner; title: Adorno and the Don / Nikolaus Bacht..