Operatic Subjects
Subtitle: The Evolution of Self in Modern Opera
Publisher: Fairleigh Dickinson University Press
Published: July 2000
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 227
ISBN-13: 9780838638583
Subjects: Genres & Styles - Opera; History & Criticism - General; Opera; Philosophy And Esthetics Of Music; Music; Music/Songbooks; 19th century; 20th century; Subjectivity in opera
Description: "Operatic Subjects argues that opera is more than just a conservative and belated reflection of social, intellectual, and artistic trends; opera in its own way actively has contributed to the creation of the conceptual vocabulary of modernism. Particularly, this work maintains that opera has helped form our notions of what it means to be a self in twentieth-century western culture."--BOOK JACKET.