Opera : the art of dying /
Our modern narratives of science and technology can only go so far in teaching us about the death that we must all finally face. Can an act of the imagination, in the form of opera, take us the rest of the way? Might opera, an art form steeped in death, teach us how to die, as this provocative work...
| Основен автор: | Hutcheon, Linda, 1947- |
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| Други автори: | Hutcheon, Michael, 1945- |
| Формат: | Електронна книга |
| Език: | English |
| Публикувано: |
Cambridge, Mass. :
Harvard University Press,
2004.
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| Серия: |
Convergences (Cambridge, Mass.)
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| Онлайн достъп: |
http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&AN=282078 |
| Подобни документи: |
Print version::
Opera. |
Съдържание:
- Music and the "murky death"
- The contemplation of death
- Eros and Thanatos : Richard Wagner's Tristan und Isolde
- "All that is, ends" : living while dying in Wagner's Der Ring des Nibelungen
- Orphic rituals of bereavement
- "'Tis a consummation devoutly to be wish'd" : staging suicide
- The undead.