1st Edition
Undertones of Insurrection Music and Cultural Politics in the Modern German Narrative
By Marc Weiner
Copyright 2009
346 Pages
by
Routledge
346 Pages
by
Routledge
366 Pages
by
Routledge
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A basic tenet of literary studies is that aesthetic structures are politically significant because they represent an artist's response to the political implications of cultural codes with which the recipient of the modern work is also acquainted. This tenet provides the basis for the ideological associations attending the appearance of music in the modern German narrative. With his understanding... Read more
1: Music in the Modern Imagination: The Polemics of Hans Pfitzner; 2: Music and Repression: Death in Venice; 3: Mozart, Jazz, and the Dissolution of the Bourgeois Personality: Steppenwolf; 4: Democracy versus Music Drama: Verdi, Palestrina , and Reflections of a Nonpolitical Man; 5: Music and the Enlightenment Tradition: The Magic Flute, The Woman without a Shadow, and Rhapsody: A Dream Novel; 6: “Air from Another Planet”: Beyond Polarities in Doctor Faustus
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Marc Weiner
