Mariani, Andrea
Italian Music in Dakota

The Function of European Musical Theater in U.S. Culture.

This volume analyzes the transatlantic migration of European opera and its appropriation by some of the most important literary figures of the United States. The presence of opera in literary texts is always "operative" and results in artistic outputs possessing more articulated and tense vectors of meaning. The comparative method applied confirms the musical sensitivity of masters such as Poe, Whitman, Melville, Dickinson, Wharton, Cather, reveals the intriguing contradictions in the poetics of Emerson, Thoreau and James and vindicates the role of some minor figures who, through their involvement in the world of musical theater, contributed to the intercultural context. 250 Seiten, broschiert (Passages - Transitions - Intersections; Vol. 2/V&R unipress 2017) Mängelexemplarstempel auf Schnitt, Schnitt an der unteren Ecke leicht bestoßen/defect copy stamp on cut, book cut at the lower corner slightly bumped