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- catalog abstract ""Mozart's Magic Flute, a rich but problematic work, is complicated by discontinuities of plot, tone, and theme that disturb its surface appearance as a serene synthesis of Enlightenment ideals. This study, an essay in a dramaturgical opera criticism, explores how this eccentric masterpiece, haunted by the decline of the progressive reforms of Joseph II, uses the images of the marginalized popular theater of suburban Vienna to express a fundamental anxiety of its time (and, by inheritance, ours): the clash of a pre-capitalist, pre-industrial social morality with a modern ethic of rationalized self-interest. This anxiety divides The Magic Flute, the Viennese social imagination, and the entire Mozart opera canon between the fascination of the newly emergent self and a compensatory desire for an idealized, spontaneous, but almost unrepresentable social order."--Jacket.".
- catalog contributor b7365791.
- catalog created "c1999.".
- catalog date "1999".
- catalog date "c1999.".
- catalog dateCopyrighted "c1999.".
- catalog description ""Mozart's Magic Flute, a rich but problematic work, is complicated by discontinuities of plot, tone, and theme that disturb its surface appearance as a serene synthesis of Enlightenment ideals.".
- catalog description "1. Familiar Flutes -- 2. Opera and the Imaginary -- 3. Ecstatic Enlightenment -- 4. Dream-Work in the Social Margins -- 5. Silence and Selfhood -- 6. The Desire of Order -- App. Synopsis of The Magic Flute.".
- catalog description "Includes bibliographical references and index.".
- catalog description "This anxiety divides The Magic Flute, the Viennese social imagination, and the entire Mozart opera canon between the fascination of the newly emergent self and a compensatory desire for an idealized, spontaneous, but almost unrepresentable social order."--Jacket.".
- catalog description "This study, an essay in a dramaturgical opera criticism, explores how this eccentric masterpiece, haunted by the decline of the progressive reforms of Joseph II, uses the images of the marginalized popular theater of suburban Vienna to express a fundamental anxiety of its time (and, by inheritance, ours): the clash of a pre-capitalist, pre-industrial social morality with a modern ethic of rationalized self-interest.".
- catalog extent "xxi, 288 p. ;".
- catalog hasFormat "Silence and selfhood.".
- catalog identifier "0820419508 (hardcover)".
- catalog isFormatOf "Silence and selfhood.".
- catalog isPartOf "Pittsburgh studies in theatre and culture ; vol. 2".
- catalog issued "1999".
- catalog issued "c1999.".
- catalog language "eng".
- catalog publisher "New York : P. Lang,".
- catalog relation "Silence and selfhood.".
- catalog subject "782.1 20".
- catalog subject "ML410.M9 E94 1995".
- catalog subject "ML410.M9 E94 1999".
- catalog subject "Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus, 1756-1791. Zauberflöte.".
- catalog subject "Music Social aspects.".
- catalog tableOfContents "1. Familiar Flutes -- 2. Opera and the Imaginary -- 3. Ecstatic Enlightenment -- 4. Dream-Work in the Social Margins -- 5. Silence and Selfhood -- 6. The Desire of Order -- App. Synopsis of The Magic Flute.".
- catalog title "Silence and selfhood : the desire of order in Mozart's Magic Flute / Michael Evenden.".
- catalog type "text".