Andrea Mariani Dipartimento di Lingue, letterature e Culture Mode Università degli Studi "G. d'annunzio" / Mariani Italian Music in Dakota

The Function of European Musical Theater in U.S. Culture
1. Auflage 2017
ISBN: 978-3-8470-0655-8
Verlag: V&R unipress
Format: PDF
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E-Book, Englisch, 250 Seiten

Reihe: Passages ? Transitions ? Intersections

The intersection between literature and music is a major feature in Anglo-American cultural history. The present volume analyzes the transatlantic migration of European opera and its appropriation by some of the most important literary figures of the United States. The presence of opera in literary texts is always “operative” and results in artistic outputs possessing more articulated and tense vectors of meaning. The comparative method applied confirms the musical sensitivity of masters such as Poe, Whitman, Melville, Dickinson, Wharton, Cather, reveals the intriguing contradictions in the poetics of Emerson, Thoreau and James and vindicates the role of some minor figures who, through their involvement in the world of musical theater, contributed to the intercultural context.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Mariani, Andrea

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Europäische Geschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Geschichte einzelner Länder Amerikanische Geschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Musikwissenschaft Musikwissenschaft Allgemein Musikwissenschaft: Rezeption, Einflüsse und Beziehungen
• Geisteswissenschaften Musikwissenschaft Geschichte der Musik
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtliche Themen Kultur- und Ideengeschichte

Inhaltsverzeichnis

1;Title Page;4
2;Copyright;5
3;Table of Contents;6
4;Body;8
5;Introduction;8
6;Chapter One: R. W. Emerson and E. A. Poe;16
6.1;1. R. W. Emerson: the music of the spheres;16
6.2;2. Contrastive analyses: The Aeolian harp;20
6.3;3. Acoustic strategies in E. A. Poe;25
6.4;4. The rhetoric of arabesque;29
6.5;5. Operatic experimentations;31
6.6;6. The melodramatic imagination;34
7;Chapter Two: H. D. Thoreau and Herman Melville;44
7.1;1. Thoreau's visual and acoustic ekphrases;44
7.2;2. A music of thoughts;48
7.3;3. Herman Melville: theater plus music;54
7.4;4. The Piazza Tales;60
7.5;5. George Templeton Strong and opera;63
8;Chapter Three: Walt Whitman;70
8.1;Part one;70
8.2;1. Musical theater in Whitman;70
8.3;2. Proud Music of the Storm;75
8.4;Part two;91
8.5;3. Italian Music in Dakota;91
8.6;4. The Chicago Auditorium;99
9;Chapter Four: Emily Dickinson, Sidney Lanier;104
9.1;1. The old transcendentalist debate;104
9.2;2. Close and imaginary encounters;109
9.3;3. The Self as musician;114
9.4;4. Sidney Lanier: poetry and music;121
9.5;5. Odes to Wagner and Beethoven;129
10;Chapter Five: Henry James;134
10.1;1. European opera and realistic fiction;134
10.2;2. Henry James's acoustic sensitiveness;145
10.3;3. Isabel Archer's “transition” from opera house to sculpture gallery;156
11;Chapter Six: Wharton, Cather, Santayana;168
11.1;1. Edith Wharton: the experience of opera in The Age of Innocence;170
11.2;2. Willa Cather: larks and gayhearts;179
11.3;3. George Santayana's “epiphonic” moments;189
12;Chapter Seven: The twentieth century;198
12.1;1. William Demby and Vincent Sheean;201
12.2;2. John Berryman: music, poetry, syntax;210
12.3;3. Music in James Merrill;220
12.4;4. Merrill and opera. Conclusions;227
13;Bibliography;236
14;Index of Names;246

Über Autor(innen)

Prof Dr Andrea Mariani recently retired from his position as a full professor of Anglo-American Literature at the University of Chieti-Pescara.

Prof Dr Andrea Mariani recently retired from his position as a full professor of Anglo-American Literature at the University of Chieti-Pescara.