Arthur Groos

Examines post-colonial issues in Madama Butterfly, the historical background, conflicted representation of the heroine, and controversial reception in Japan.

Transpositions of a 'Japanese Tragedy'

Madama Butterfly/Madamu Batafurai

Roger Parker

"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.

Reading Opera

James Webster

Mary Hunter

Assistant Professor of Art History Mary Hunter

Mary Kathleen Hunter

This collection of essays, presented by an internationally known team of scholars, explores the world of Vienna and the development of opera buffa in the second half of the eighteenth century. Although today Mozart remains one of the most well-known figures of the period, the era was filled with composers, librettists, writers and performers who created and developed opera buffa. Among the topics examined are the relationship of Viennese opera buffa to French theatre; Mozart and eighteenth-century comedy; gender, nature and bourgeois society on Mozart's buffa stage; as well as close analyses of key works such as Don Giovanni and Le nozze di Figaro.

Opera Buffa in Mozart's Vienna

Emerson Brown

Studies in Honor of Robert Earl Kaske

Magister Regis

University of Toronto. Centre for Medieval Studies

Robert Earl Kaske

Michael W. Twomey

If a reader of Chaucer suspects that an echo of a biblical verse may somehow depend for its meaning on traditional commentary on that verse, how does he or she go about finding the relevant commentaries? If one finds the word 'fire' in a context that suggests resonances beyond the literal, how does that reader go about learning what the traditional figurative meanings of fire were? It was to the solution of such difficulties that R.E. Kaske addressed himself in this volume setting out and analyzing the major repositories of traditional material: biblical exegesis, the liturgy, hymns and sequences, sermons and homilies, the pictorial arts, mythography, commentaries on individual authors, and a number of miscellaneous themes. An appendix deals with medieval encyclopedias. Kaske created a tool that will revolutionize research in its designated field: the discovery and interpretation of the traditional meanings reflected in medieval Christian imagery.

A Guide to Interpretation

Medieval Christian Literary Imagery

Hans-Jochen Schiewer

Dieses Buch dokumentiert die Ergebnisse der Diskussion zwischen nordamerikanischen und deutschen Mediävisten und eröffnet zugleich eine neue Reihe - mit dem Titel "Transatlantische Studien" (TRAST) -, die es sich zum Ziel gesetzt hat, ein Forum des Transfers mediävistischer Forschung zwischen Nordamerika und Europa zu sein. Der Austausch zwischen Fachwissenschaftlern aus dem deutschen Sprachraum, den USA und Kanada zeigte deutlich, wie sporadisch die Wahrnehmung der Forschungsthemen, -methoden und -ergebnisse der jeweils anderen Seite ist. Mit "Kulturen des Manuskriptzeitalters" wird eine hochaktuelle Fragestellung transkontinental zur Diskussion gestellt. Die Beiträge zu diesem Colloquium in Göttingen sind im vorliegenden Band versammelt.

Ergebnisse der amerikanisch-deutschen Arbeitstagung an der Georg-August-Universität Göttingen vom 17. bis 20. Oktober 2002

Kulturen des Manuskriptzeitalters

Virgilio Bernardoni

l'orientalismo di fine secolo, l'approccio pucciniano, la ricezione : atti del convegno internazionale di studi, Lucca-Torre del Lago, 28-30 maggio 2004

Madama Butterfly

Seven leading international writers discuss the genesis, libretto and music, and performance and reception history of Wagner's Tristan.

Richard Wagner: Tristan und Isolde

Arthur Groos

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