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This study bridges literature and music at an exciting and controversial point, offering the lover of music and literature and the specialist reader an insight into the relationship between Wagner’s operas and the nineteenth century novel, including comparisons with Rigoletto and Der Rosenkavalier in their evolution from other forms. It discusses matters of genre and national tradition, placing Wagner’s works in the heritage of the European Enlightenment. Comparisons of Wagner’s works with the novel have been fleeting, denoting only their length and complexity. Examining in principle and in detail the proximity of Wagner’s themes and techniques to the practices of the Realist novel, this study sheds original light on major issues of Wagner’s works and on opera as genre. The book trawls extensively in two research fields. It looks to the established Wagner literature for understandings of the musical procedures which map his works onto the prose fiction, while reading Wagner’s operas against the backdrop of the European novel, rather than against German Romantic fiction. It revisits Adorno’s music sociology and his seminal study of Wagner, but repositions many elements of his argument. Unusually, this book adopts a critical stance to Nietzsche’s view of Wagner. In marked contrast to Nietzsche, the study regards parallels between Wagner and Flaubert as an enrichment of our understanding of Wagner’s achievement. The book concludes with a major question of European cultural history: why it is that – in common with Italy, but in marked contrast to France or England – Germany’s most representative works in the nineteenth century are operas rather than novels.

Fiction --- Comparative literature --- Literary semiotics --- Wagner, Richard --- European fiction --- European fiction. --- European literature --- History and criticism. --- Wagner, Richard, --- Operas (Wagner, Richard) --- Musikdramen (Wagner, Richard) --- 1800-1899

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"This critical text offers an introduction to current European crime writing by exploring ten of the best new crime and mystery authors from Sweden (Stieg Larsson and Henning Mankell), Norway (Karin Fossum and Jo Nesbø), Iceland (Arnaldur Indridason), Italy (Andrea Camilleri), France (Fred Vargas), Scotland (Denise Mina and Philip Kerr), and Ireland (Ken Bruen)"--Provided by publisher.

Detective and mystery stories --- Detective and mystery stories --- European fiction --- European fiction --- Roman policier --- Roman policier --- Roman européen --- Roman européen --- History and criticism. --- Appreciation --- History and criticism. --- History and criticism. --- Histoire et critique --- Appréciation --- Histoire et critique --- Histoire et critique

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Ends of Enlightenment explores three realms of eighteenth-century European innovation that remain active in the twenty-first century: the realist novel, philosophical thought, and the physical sciences, especially human anatomy. The European Enlightenment was a state of being, a personal stance, and an orientation to the world. Ways of probing experience and knowledge in the novel and in the visual arts were interleaved with methods of experimentation in science and philosophy. This book's fresh perspective considers the novel as an art but also as a force in thinking. The critica

Enlightenment - Influence. --- Enlightenment -- Influence. --- European fiction - 18th century - History and criticism. --- European fiction -- 18th century -- History and criticism. --- Literature - Philosophy. --- Literature -- Philosophy. --- Literature and science - Europe - History - 18th century. --- Literature and science -- Europe -- History -- 18th century. --- Realism in literature. --- European fiction --- Literature and science --- Realism in literature --- Literature --- Enlightenment --- Languages & Literatures --- Literature - General --- Aufklärung --- Eighteenth century --- Philosophy, Modern --- Rationalism --- Morals and literature --- Ethics --- Neorealism (Literature) --- Magic realism (Literature) --- Mimesis in literature --- Poetry and science --- Science and literature --- Science and poetry --- Science and the humanities --- European literature --- History and criticism --- History --- Philosophy --- Influence --- Moral and ethical aspects --- Roman européen --- Littérature et sciences --- Réalisme dans la littérature --- Littérature --- Siècle des Lumières --- History and criticism. --- Philosophy. --- Influence. --- Histoire et critique --- Histoire --- Philosophie --- Literature and morals