| Contents |
Subject, subjectivity, and opera -- Operatic form: drama and music -- Wagner and the self -- Post-Wagnerian opera: the interior self -- Allegories of the subject: Strauss and Hofmannsthal -- Individual and society: Berg and Weill -- The absent center: Berg and Schoenberg -- Minimalism and the self: Glass and Adams -- Conclusion: heterogeneity of persons and sounds -- Messiaen. |
| Abstract |
This book argues that opera is more than just a conservative and belated reflection of social, intellectual, and artistic trends; opera in its own way actively has contributed to the creation of the conceptual vocabulary of modernism. Particularly, this work maintains that opera has helped form our notions of what it means to be a self in twentieth-century western culture. |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references (pages 221-224) and index. |
| LCCN | 99058593 |
| ISBN | 0838638589 (alk. paper) |
