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Mad Loves: Women and Music in Offenbach´s Les Contes d´Hoffmann
Heather Hadlock
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Paperback. Num Pages: 176 pages. BIC Classification: AVGC9. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 235 x 155. .
In a lively 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 ... Read more
In a lively 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 ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Princeton University Press
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2016
Condition
New
Weight
299 g
Number of Pages
176
Place of Publication
New Jersey, United States
ISBN
9780691170855
SKU
V9780691170855
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About Heather Hadlock
Heather Hadlock is Assistant Professor of Musicology at Stanford University.
Reviews for Mad Loves: Women and Music in Offenbach´s Les Contes d´Hoffmann
While Hadlock's reading of Hoffman against its sources affords many keen insights, her reading of the opera against itself is even more revealing... A work of scintillating intelligence and endlessly intriguing possibilities.
M. Lignana Rosenberg, Opera News In keeping with Offenbach's hybrid work, this book moves freely across academic borders
alongside the opera's literary origins sit historical and biographical contexts, ... Read more
M. Lignana Rosenberg, Opera News In keeping with Offenbach's hybrid work, this book moves freely across academic borders
alongside the opera's literary origins sit historical and biographical contexts, ... Read more