Ideology in Britten's operas / J.P.E. Harper-Scott.
This thematic examination of Britten's operas focuses on the way that ideology is presented on stage. To watch or listen is to engage with a vivid artistic testament to the ideological world of mid-twentieth-century Britain. But it is more than that, too, because in many ways Britten's ope...
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Cambridge, United Kingdon ; New York, NY, USA :
Cambridge University Press,
[2018]
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| Series: | Music since 1900.
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Table of Contents:
- Cover; Half-Tilte; Series information; Title page; Copyright information; Dedication; Epigraph; Contents; Figures; Music Examples; Preface; Part I Mappa Mundi; 1 Defining Ideology; 1.1 Symbolic and Materialist Conceptions of Ideology; 1.2 Discerning Ideology in Britten's Operas; 1.3 The Context and Structure of the Book; 2 Ideological Narratives; 2.1 The Ballad, Interpellation, and the Real; 2.2 The Ballad's Voice; 2.3 Ideological Anamorphosis and the Opera's Gaze; 2.4 Three Orders, Three Thematic Networks; 2.5 The Reactive Presentation of a Pacifist Truth; Part II The Ship of State
- 3 From Manifest Violence to its Historical Sediment3.1 As Violent as Star Clusters; 3.2 Acceptance, Resistance, and Lateness in Billy Budd; 3.3 Trickling-down Violence; 3.4 Meaningless and Failed Violence in The Rape of Lucretia and Peter Grimes; 3.5 Divine, Evental Violence; 4 The Occultation of History; 4.1 Starry Vere's Nebulaphobia; 4.2 Vere's Violent Inaction; 4.3 Britten, the Bible, Bulgakov, and Bad Conscience; 4.4 Ambiguity in the Prelude and Epilogue; 4.5 Historicity, Claggart's Evil, and the Worlding of the Opera
- 4.6 Vere's Sovereignty, Billy's Bare Life, and the Paranoid/Schizoid Audience4.7 Listening to the Interview Chords; 4.8 The Opera's 'Meaning'; Part III New World; 5 Women and Children; 5.1 The Excremental Real of Bourgeois Realism; 5.2 Constructing Innocence; 5.3 From Imaginary to Symbolic Identification; 5.4 Homines sacri; 5.5 Tadzio, the Figure of the Child, and Western Sexual Guilt; 5.6 Britten's Opera about Rape; 5.7 Three Themes from Shakespeare's The Rape of Lucrece; 5.8 Britten's Women in Twentieth-century Context; 5.9 Sex, Innocence, and the 'Stain' in Britten's Opera
- 6 A Shadow Falls on Castle Walls6.1 Britten's Encounter with Japan; 6.2 Curlew River, a First Physiognomy; 6.3 Some Japanese Influences; 6.4 Curlew River, a Second Physiognomy; 6.5 Iki, the Aesthetics of Unrealistic Idealism; 6.6 Understanding the Self through the Other; 6.7 Regaining Focus; 6.8 Dying to Understand: A Third Physiognomy; Bibliography; Index