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Madama Butterfly/Madamu Batafurai
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ISBN: 9781009250672 1009250671 9781009250696 9781009250689 Year: 2023 Publisher: Cambridge, United Kingdom ;New York Cambridge University Press


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Madama Butterfly/Madamu Batafurai : transpositions of a "Japanese tragedy"
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ISBN: 1009250663 1009250698 9781009250665 1009250701 1009250671 Year: 2023 Publisher: Cambridge, United Kingdom ; New York : Cambridge University Press,

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Puccini's famous but controversial Madama Butterfly reflects a practice of 'temporary marriage' between Western men and Japanese women in nineteenth-century treaty ports. Groos' book identifies the plot's origin in an eye-witness account and traces its transmission via John Luther Long's short story and David Belasco's play. Archival sources, many unpublished, reveal how Puccini and his librettists imbued the opera with differing constructions of the action and its heroine. Groos's analysis suggests how they constructed a 'contemporary' music-drama with multiple possibilities for interpreting the misalliance between a callous American naval officer and an impoverished fifteen-year-old geisha, providing a more complex understanding of the heroine's presumed 'marriage'. As an orientalizing tragedy with a racially inflected representation of Cio-Cio-San, the opera became a lightning rod for identity politics in Japan, while also stimulating decolonizing transpositions into indigenous theatre traditions such as Bunraku puppet theatre and Takarazuka musicals.


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Richard Wagner : Tristan and Isolde
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ISBN: 9780521437387 Year: 2011 Publisher: Cambridge : Cambridge University Press,

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Opera --- Wagner, Richard,


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Romancing the Grail : Genre, Science, and Quest in Wolfram's "Parzival"
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ISBN: 1501734881 Year: 2019 Publisher: Ithaca, NY : Cornell University Press,

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Arthur Groos here challenges traditional approaches to Wolfram von Eschenbach's quest-romance Parzival (ca. 1210). He offers a new model for reading the text in the light of narrative theory by means of close textual analysis as well as scrupulous investigation of Wolfram's scientific sources. Taking as his starting point the assertion by the Russian narrative theorist Mikhail Bakhtin that Parzival achieved a pluralism of novelistic discourse generally associated with more recent works, Groos traces several strands of narrativeespecially Arthurian and Grail. He focuses on crucial episodes in the. hero's quest, ranging from his discovery of knighthood to the healing of the Fisher King, and shows how Wolfram transposes the clerical French perspective of Chretien de Troyes' s Li Contes del graal into the context of chivalric German culture. Examining the variety of language registers and genres incorporated in Parzival, Groos demonstrates that the interaction of chivalric romance, hagiography, dynastic chronicle, and scientific and medical treatise produces a decentered fictional universe in which various religious and secular viewpoints enter into dialogue. In the Grail episodes in particular, Groos finds a narrative universe that both suggests a transcendent teleology and resists ideological closure.

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Romancing the grail : genre, science, and quest in Wolfram's Parzival
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ISBN: 0801430682 Year: 1995 Publisher: Ithaca ; London Cornell University Press


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Cambridge studies in opera
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Year: 1997 Publisher: Cambridge New York Melbourne Cambridge University Press

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Romancing the Grail
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ISBN: 9781501734885 Year: 2019 Publisher: Ithaca, NY

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Madama Butterfly/Madamu Batafurai : transpositions of a "Japanese tragedy"
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ISBN: 9781009250696 Year: 2023 Publisher: Cambridge Cambridge University Press

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Reading Opera
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ISBN: 0691027099 0691602670 0691632138 140085959X 0691091323 1306986583 9781400859597 9780691602677 9780691091327 9780691027098 9780691632131 Year: 2014 Publisher: Princeton, NJ : Princeton University Press,

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"Libretto-bashing has a distinguished tradition in the blood sport of opera," writes Arthur Groos in the introduction to this broad survey of critical approaches to that much-maligned genre. To examine, and to challenge, the long-standing prejudice against libretti and the scholarly tradition that has, until recently, reiterated it, Groos and Roger Parker have commissioned thirteen stimulating essays by musicologists, literary critics, and historians. Taken as a whole, the volume demonstrates that libretti are now very much within the purview of contemporary humanistic scholarship. Libretti pose questions of intertextuality, transposition of genre, and reception history. They invite a broad spectrum of contemporary reading strategies ranging from the formalistic to the feminist. And as texts for music they raise issues in the relation between the two mediums and their respective traditions. Reading Opera will be of value to anyone with a serious interest in opera and contemporary opera criticism. The essays cover the period from the early nineteenth to the early twentieth centuries, with a particular focus on works of the later nineteenth century. The contributors are Carolyn Abbate, William Ashbrook, Katherine Bergeron, Caryl Emerson, Nelly Furman, Sander L. Gilman, Arthur Groos, James A. Hepokoski, Jurgen Maehder, Roger Parker, Paul Robinson, Christopher Wintle, and Susan Youens.Originally published in 1988.The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.

Giacomo Puccini : La Bohème
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ISBN: 0521319137 0521264898 Year: 1991 Publisher: Cambridge ; New York, NY : Cambridge University Press,

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