1.

Record Nr.

UNISA996338049703316

Titolo

Reading Opera / / Arthur Groos, Roger Parker

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Princeton, NJ : , : Princeton University Press, , [2014]

©2014

ISBN

0-691-60267-0

0-691-63213-8

0-691-02709-9

1-4008-5959-X

Edizione

[Course Book]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (363 pages) : music

Collana

Princeton Studies in Opera ; ; 23

Disciplina

782.1/2

Soggetti

Music and literature

Libretto

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Most of the essays presented at a conference held at Cornell University, Oct. 1986.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Frontmatter -- CONTENTS -- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS -- INTRODUCTION -- Appropriation in Wagner's Tristan Libretto / Groos, Arthur -- Boito and F.-V. Hugo's "Magnificent Translation": A Study in the Genesis of the Otello Libretto / Hepokoski, James A. -- An Unseen Player: Destiny in FelUas et Malisande / Youens, Susan -- The Origins of Italian Literaturoper: Guglielmo Ratcliff, La figlia di Iorio, Parisina, and Francesca da Rimini / Maehder, Jurgen -- Erik's Dream and Tannhauser's Journey / Abbate, Carolyn -- The Languages of Love in Carmen / Furman, Nelly -- How to Avoid Believing (While Reading Iago's "Credo") / Bergeron, Katherine -- The Numinous in Gotterdammerung / Wintle, Christopher -- Musorgsky's Libretti on Historical Themes: From the Two Borises to Khovanshchina / Emerson, Caryl -- Boito and the 1868 Mefistofele Libretto as a Reform Text / Ashbrook, William -- On Reading Nineteenth-Century Opera: Verdi through the Looking-Glass / Parker, Roger -- Strauss and the Pervert / Gilman, Sander L. -- A Deconstructive Postscript: Reading Libretti and Misreading Opera / Robinson, Paul -- INDEX



Sommario/riassunto

"Libretto-bashing has a distinguished tradition in the blood sport of opera," writes Arthur Groos in the introduction to this broad survey of critical approaches to that much-maligned genre. To examine, and to challenge, the long-standing prejudice against libretti and the scholarly tradition that has, until recently, reiterated it, Groos and Roger Parker have commissioned thirteen stimulating essays by musicologists, literary critics, and historians. Taken as a whole, the volume demonstrates that libretti are now very much within the purview of contemporary humanistic scholarship. Libretti pose questions of intertextuality, transposition of genre, and reception history. They invite a broad spectrum of contemporary reading strategies ranging from the formalistic to the feminist. And as texts for music they raise issues in the relation between the two mediums and their respective traditions. Reading Opera will be of value to anyone with a serious interest in opera and contemporary opera criticism. The essays cover the period from the early nineteenth to the early twentieth centuries, with a particular focus on works of the later nineteenth century. The contributors are Carolyn Abbate, William Ashbrook, Katherine Bergeron, Caryl Emerson, Nelly Furman, Sander L. Gilman, Arthur Groos, James A. Hepokoski, Jurgen Maehder, Roger Parker, Paul Robinson, Christopher Wintle, and Susan Youens.Originally published in 1988.The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.



2.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910298300403321

Titolo

The Gentianaceae - Volume 1: Characterization and Ecology / / edited by Jan J. Rybczyński, Michael R. Davey, Anna Mikuła

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Berlin, Heidelberg : , : Springer Berlin Heidelberg : , : Imprint : Springer, , 2014

ISBN

3-642-54010-4

Edizione

[1st ed. 2014.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (345 p.)

Disciplina

570

571.2

578.012

578.09

Soggetti

Plants

Plant ecology

Evolution (Biology)

Plant physiology

Plant Systematics/Taxonomy/Biogeography

Plant Ecology

Evolutionary Biology

Plant Physiology

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

Nota di contenuto

Morphological Characteristics of the Family Gentianaceae -- Classification and Evolution of the Family Gentianaceae -- A Monographic Revision of the Neotropical Genus Macrocarpaea (Gentianaceae) in Ecuador -- A Review of Taxonomy and Distribution of the Gentianaceae in the Ukraine -- Distribution, Ecology and Some Taxonomical Notes of Genera Gentiana L. and Gentianella Moech (Gentianaceae) in the Balkans -- Biochemical and Morphological Determination of Flower Color in Gentianaceae -- Karyology of European Species of Genus Gentiana L -- 21st Century Centauries – An Updated Review on Centaurium Hill and Allies (Gentianaceae) -- Genes Expressed in the Overwinter Buds of Gentian (Gentiana spp.): Application to Taxonomic, Phylogenetic and Phylogeographical



Analyses -- Exacum bicolor Roxb. an Exquisite, Under Exploited Wild Ornamental -- Indian Swertia from Eastern Himalaya: Strategies of Conservation and Biotechnological Improvements -- The Role of Arbuscular Mycorrhiza in the Growth and Development of Plants in the Family Gentianaceae.

Sommario/riassunto

This is the first of two volumes on Gentianaceae. Comprising twelve chapters, it centres upon the characterization and ecology of Gentianaceae worldwide, with emphasis on the application of molecular and cytological approaches in relation to taxonomy. The first three chapters consider the classification of the family and review the advances in research since the earlier revision published in 2002, which resulted in the reclassification of some plants and the naming of new genera. The next chapter provides the most comprehensive report to date of the systematics of South American Neotropical woody Gentians. Other reviews include details of the Gentianaceae in Eastern Europe. The key biochemical steps that result in the diversity of Gentian flower colors, the cytology of European species and an historical account of the importance of Gentians in herbal medicines are also covered. Furthermore, an analysis of gene expression in overwintering buds is presented, discussing several aspects of plant taxonomy, phenotypic characteristics, phylogeography and pedigree. Two contributions highlight the importance of Gentians in India, and the last chapter presents evidence for the importance of Glomeromycota in developing arbuscular mycorrhizal associations with the roots of Gentians. This volume provides the basis for the biotechnological approaches that are considered in the companion book The Gentianaceae – Volume 2: Biotechnology and Applications.