Reading Stephen Sondheim :a collection of critical essays
- 其他作者: Goodhart, Sandor.
- 出版: New York : Garland Pub. 2000.
- 稽核項: xxii, 280 p. ;24 cm.
- 叢書名: Garland reference library of the humanities ;vol. 2065.Studies in modern drama ;vol. 10
- 標題: History and criticism. , Criticism and interpretation. , Sondheim, Stephen , Sondheim, Stephen Criticism and interpretation. , Musicals , Musicals United States -- History and criticism.
- ISBN: 081532832X , 9780815328322
- 附註: 教育部顧問室九十一年度「表演藝術資料中心計畫」 教育部顧問室九十二年度「表演藝術資料中心計畫」. Includes bibliographical references (p. 259-267) and index. Introduction : Reading Sondheim : the end of ever after / Sandor Goodhart -- The sung and the said : literary value in the musical dramas of Stephen Sondheim / Thomas P. Adler -- Maternity, madness and art in the theater of Stephen Sondheim / Allen W. Menton -- "Every day a little death" : Sondheim's un-musicaling of marriage / Kay Young -- The funeral of Follies : Stephen Sondheim and the razing of American musical theater / Ann Marie McEntee -- Difference and sameness : Tarchetti's Fosca, Scola's Passione d'amore, and Sondheim's Passion / Shoshana Milgram Knapp -- "It takes two" : a duet on duets in Follies and Sweeney Todd / Paul M. Puccio and Scott F. Stoddart -- Enchantment on the manicured lawns : the Shakespearean "green world" in A little night music / Paul M. Puccio -- Arresting development : law, love, and the name-of-the-father in Sweeney Todd / Joseph Marchesani -- Visions and re-visions : the postmodern challenge of Merrily we roll along / S.F. Stoddart -- A cathedral to art / Frank Olley -- "Happily...ever..." NEVER : the antithetical romance of Into the woods / S.F. Stoddart -- "The mother's part" : love, letters, and reading in Sondheim's Passion / Sandor Goodhart.
- 系統號: 005227332
- 資料類型: 圖書
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The legendary Greek figure Orpheus was said to have possessed magical powers capable of moving all living and inanimate things through the sound of his lyre and voice. Over time, the Orphic theme has come to indicate the power of music to unsettle, subvert, and ultimately bring down oppressive realities in order to liberate the soul and expand human life without limits. The liberating effect of music has been a particularly important theme in twentieth-century African American literature. The nine original essays in Black Orpheus examines the Orphic theme in the fiction of such African American writers as Jean Toomer, Langston Hughes, Claude McKay, James Baldwin, Nathaniel Mackey, Sherley Anne Williams, Ann Petry, Ntozake Shange, Alice Walker, Gayl Jones, and Toni Morrison. The authors discussed in this volume depict music as a mystical, shamanistic, and spiritual power that can miraculously transform the realities of the soul and of the world. Here, the musician uses his or her music as a weapon to shield and protect his or her spirituality. Written by scholars of English, music, women's studies, American studies, cultural theory, and black and Africana studies, the essays in this interdisciplinary collection ultimately explore the thematic, linguistic structural presence of music in twentieth-century African American fiction.
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