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Pagodas in Play
Adrienne Ward
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Description for Pagodas in Play
Hardback. Series: Bucknell Studies in Eighteenth Century Literature and Culture. Num Pages: 232 pages. BIC Classification: GBC; HB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 291 x 223 x 21. Weight in Grams: 898.
Pagodas in Play examines the representation of China in nine Italian operas of the eighteenth century. It focuses specifically on libretti, analyzing them as texts produced in a variety of interpenetrating cultural contexts: the general European fascination with the Middle Kingdom; developments in Italian literary, theatrical, and operatic realms; Enlightenment ideologies; and the heterogeneity of the Italian states. With exemplary scholarship Adrienne Ward explores how Italians appropriated prevailing notions about the Celestial Empire and used them productively in a form of entertainment widely comprehensible in eighteenth-century Europe. The Chinese characters, places, objects, and ideas staged in Italian heroic operas (opera ... Read more
Pagodas in Play examines the representation of China in nine Italian operas of the eighteenth century. It focuses specifically on libretti, analyzing them as texts produced in a variety of interpenetrating cultural contexts: the general European fascination with the Middle Kingdom; developments in Italian literary, theatrical, and operatic realms; Enlightenment ideologies; and the heterogeneity of the Italian states. With exemplary scholarship Adrienne Ward explores how Italians appropriated prevailing notions about the Celestial Empire and used them productively in a form of entertainment widely comprehensible in eighteenth-century Europe. The Chinese characters, places, objects, and ideas staged in Italian heroic operas (opera ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2010
Publisher
Bucknell University Press United States
Number of pages
232
Condition
New
Series
Bucknell Studies in Eighteenth Century Literature and Culture
Number of Pages
232
Place of Publication
Cranbury, United States
ISBN
9781611482966
SKU
V9781611482966
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About Adrienne Ward
Adrienne Ward is associate professor of Italian at the University of Virginia.
Reviews for Pagodas in Play
China exploded onto stages all across Europe during the 18th century, but Ward (Italian, U. of Virginia) contends that Italy theatricalized China not only uniquely all the countries did that but more substantively than did any other country. She describes 18th-century exoticism and China, China's journey from page to stage, China in early opera serie 1700-25, the enlightened imperial subject ... Read more