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__The__ Don Giovanni __Moment__ is the first book to examine the aesthetic and moral legacy of Mozart's masterpiece in the literature, philosophy, and culture of the nineteenth century. Scholars address __Don Giovanni__'s impact on the philosophical visions of Kierkegaard, Goethe, and Williams and its influence on the literary and dramatic works of Pushkin, Hoffmann, Mörike, Byron, Wagner, Strauss, and Shaw. Through a close and careful analysis of the opera's literary and philosophical reception and its many appropriations, rewritings, and retellings, these contributors treat Don Giovanni as a vantage point from which theory and philosophy can reconsider romanticism's central themes. As lively and passionate as the opera itself, these essays are a spirited contribution to the debate over the meaning, character, and powerful legacy of this remarkable work of art. Mozart's __Don Giovanni__ is an operatic masterpiece full of iconic and mythical tensions that still resonate today. The work redefines the terms of power, seduction, and morality, and the resulting conflict between the aesthetic and the ethical is deeply rooted in the Enlightenment and romanticism. __The__ Don Giovanni __M
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- Author
- Goehr, Lydia (editor);Herwitz, Daniel (editor)
- Publisher
- Columbia University Press
- Published
- 2006
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9780231137553
- Category
- nonfiction
- Subjects
- Music, Literary Fiction, Philosophy
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