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Orientation in European Romanticism
Exploring the experiments in individual and national self-consciousness conducted during the Romantic period, this essential comparative study of European literature, philosophy and politics makes original and often surprising connections and contrasts to reveal how personal and social identities were re-orientated and disorientated from the French Revolution onwards. Reviving a contested moment in the history of aesthetic theory, this study shows how the growing awareness of irresolution in Kant's third Kritik allowed Romantic writers to put the aesthetic to radical uses not envisaged by its parent philosophy. It also recounts how they would go on to force philosophy to revise received notions of authority, empowering women and subordinated ethnic groups to re-orientate existing hierarchies. The sheer range and variety of writers covered is testament both to the breadth of writing that Kant's philosophy so rashly legitimated and to the wider importance of philosophy to the understanding of Romantic literature.
Irish Company
22 essays and notes on Joyce & Beckett, cycling & walking, Wicklow & Connemara, Molly & Bloom, horses & cattle, trivia & totality, translation & migration, ashplants & annotations, long ways & short cuts, connections & distractions.
In the Embrace of the Swan
Myths determine the way cultures understand themselves. The papers in this volume examine culturally specific myths in Britain and the German-speaking world, and compare approaches to the theory of myth, together with the ways in which mythological formations operate in literature, aesthetics and politics ‐ with a focus on the period around 1800. They enquire into the consequences of myth-oriented discourses for the way in which these two cultures understand each other, and in this way make a significant contribution to a more profound approach to intercultural research.
All Sturm and No Drang
Contains three sections: Beckett and Romanticism, the conference proceedings of Beckett at Reading 2006, and a collection of miscellaneous essays. This title presents contributions on Beckett's attitudes toward Romantic aesthetics in general. It reflects the importance of the Beckett Foundation's Archive to scholars.
Music, Dance and Franco-Italian Cultural Exchange, C.1700
This study stems from discoveries in a trove of documents belonging to Charles-Henri de Lorraine, prince de Vaudâemont, who served as governor of Milan under the Spanish crown from 1698 to 1706. These documents, together with a mass of other sources - letters, diaries, treatises, libretti, scores - offer a vivid new picture of musical life in Paris and Milan as well as exchanges between France and Italy. The book is both a patronage study and an examination of the contributions by - and the difficulties facing - musicians and dancers who worked across national and cultural boundaries. Music, Dance, and Franco-Italian Cultural Exchange, c.1700 follows the careers of the prince and the French...
Music, Pantomime and Freedom in Enlightenment France
How did composers and performers use the lost art of pantomime to explore and promote the Enlightenment ideals of free expression?
Sexual Myths of Modernity
The notion of sexual sadism emerged from nineteenth-century alienist attempts to imagine the pleasure of the torturer or mass killer. This was a time in which sexuality was mapped to social progress, so that perversions were always related either to degeneration or decadence. These ideas were internalized in later Freudian views of the drives within the self, and of their repression under the demands of modern European civilization. Sadism was always presented as the barbarous past that lurked within each of us, ready to burst forth into murderous violence, crime, anti-Semitism, and finally genocide. This idea maintained its currency in European thought after the Second World War as Freudian...
Camillo Cavour in den Schulbüchern des liberalen Italien
Die Nationalstaaten des späten 19. Jahrhunderts mußten nach ihrer äußeren Entstehung einen inneren Konsens, ein Nationalgefühl generieren. Dieser langwierige und konfliktreiche Prozeß vollzog sich auch in Italien in besonderem Maße in den Schulen. Die Studie untersucht anhand der Schulgeschichtsbücher Inhalte und Ergebnisse dieses Nationalisierungsprozesses zwischen Risorgimento und Faschismus, exemplifiziert an der Gestalt Camillo Cavours. Sie zeigt erstmals Elemente der staatlichen Selbstdarstellung in den Schulen ebenso auf wie das zwiespältige Resultat dieser Erziehung zum nationalen Konsens. Abgerundet wird die Darstellung durch eine Einführung in die Geschichte des italienischen Schulwesens und Anhänge zu den Schulgeschichtsbüchern und deren Autoren.
Perspektiven der Edition musikdramatischer Texte
Die Edition musiktheatraler Texte gehört zweifellos zu den schwierigeren Aufgaben im Bereich des musikalischen Editionswesens. Dass heute immer noch Grundsatzfragen verhandelt werden, ist ein deutliches Indiz für ein fortbestehendes Forschungsdesiderat, das bereits in den 1980er Jahren von der neuen Disziplin der „Librettologia“ formuliert wurde und die das Bewusstsein für diese Textsorte geschärft hat. Vor diesem Hintergrund versuchte das interdisziplinäre Symposium (2012), dessen Bericht hier vorliegt, eine Art Bestandsaufnahme der verschiedenen methodologischen Ansätze in Literatur- und Musikwissenschaft, aber auch angesichts nationaler Prägungen des editorischen Umgangs mit mu...
