TY - BOOK ID - 129028702 TI - Dreaming with open eyes : opera, aesthetics, and perception in Arcadian Rome AU - Smith, Ayana O. AU - Roth Family Foundation PY - 2019 SN - 9780520298156 0520298152 PB - Oakland (Calif.) : University of California Press, DB - UniCat KW - Opera KW - Opera KW - Opera. KW - Symbolism in opera. KW - Symbolism in opera. KW - Philosophy and aesthetics KW - Pollarolo, Carlo Francesco, KW - Scarlatti, Alessandro, KW - 1600-1699. KW - Italy. UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:129028702 AB - "Dreaming with Open Eyes examines visual symbolism in late seventeenth-century Italian opera, contextualizing the genre amid the broad ocularcentric debates emerging at the crossroads of the early modern period and the Enlightenment. Ayana O. Smith re-evaluates significant aspects of the Arcadian reform aesthetic, and establishes a historically informed method of opera criticism for modern scholars and interpreters. Unfolding in a narrative fashion, the text explores facets of the philosophical and literary background, and concludes with close readings of text and music, using visual symbolism to create readings of gender and character in two operas: Alessandro Scarlatti's La Statira (Rome, 1690), and Carlo Francesco Pollarolo's La forza della virtù (Venice, 1693). Smith's interdisciplinary approach enhances our modern perception of this rich and underexplored repertory, and will appeal to students and scholars not only of opera, but also of literature, philosophy, and visual and intellectual cultures."--Provided by publisher. ER -