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Rousseau on stage : playwright, musician, spectator / edited by Maria Gullstam and Michael O'Dea.
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Oxford : Voltaire Foundation, [2017]
©2017
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xxx, 309 pages : illustrations, music ; 24 cm
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Liverpool University Press - Oxford University Studies in the Enlightenment
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PQ2056.D7 .R68 2017
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Theater
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Philosophy
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Theater and philosophy
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Theater
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France
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History
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18th century
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Music
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Philosophy and aesthetics
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Rousseau, Jean-Jacques 1712-1778
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Gullstam, Maria
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O'Dea, Michael
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Oxford University studies in the Enlightenment ; 2017:09.
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Oxford University studies in the Enlightenment, 0435-2866 ; 2017:09
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Following his opposition to the establishment of a theatre in Geneva, Jean-Jacques Rousseau is often considered an enemy of the stage. Yet he was fascinated by drama: he was a keen theatre-goer, his earliest writings were operas and comedies, his admiration for Italian lyric theatre ran through his career, he wrote one of the most successful operas of the day, Le Devin du village, and with his Pygmalion, he invented a new theatrical genre, the Scène lyrique ('melodrama'). Through multi-faceted analyses of Rousseau's theatrical and musical works, authors re-evaluate his practical and theoretical involvement with and influence on the dramatic arts, as well as his presence in modern theatre histories. New readings of the Lettre à d'Alembert highlight its political underpinnings, positioning it as an act of resistance to external bourgeois domination of Geneva's cultural sphere, and demonstrate the work's influence on theatrical reform after Rousseau's death. Fresh analyses of his theory of voice, developed in the Essai sur l'origine des langues, highlight the unique prestige of Italian opera for Rousseau. His ambition to rethink the nature and function of stage works, seen in Le Devin du village and then, more radically, in Pygmalion, give rise to several different discussions in the volume, as do his complex relations with Gluck. Together, contributors shed new light on the writer's relationship to the stage, and argue for a more nuanced approach to his theatrical and operatic works, theories and legacy. -- Provided by publisher.
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 291-302) and index.
Contents
Maria Gullstam and Michael O'Dea, Introduction: 'La vérité est que Racine me charme'
Part I. Rousseau as theorist of theatre and opera : 1. The anthropological foresight of the Lettre sur les spectacle / Felicity Baker
2. The dramaturgy of Rousseau's Lettre à d'Alembert and its importance for modern theatre / Patrick Primavesi
3. The voice of nature in Rousseau's theatre: reconstructing a dramaturgy / Jørgen Langdalen
4. Rousseau's Pygmalion and the limits of (operatic) expression / Jacqueline Waeber
Part II. Rousseau as playwright : 5. Pygmalion's power struggles: Rousseau, Rameau and Galathée / Maria Gullstam
6. Rousseau and his early comedies: the concept of the comic / Marie-Emmanuelle Plagnol-Diéval
7. Rousseau's Pygmalion and the theatre of autobiography / David Marshall
Part III. Rousseau's operatic and theatrical posterity : 8. The melodic language of Le Devin du village and the evolution of opéra-comique / David Charlton
9. Rousseau's ghost: Le Devin du village at the Paris Opera, 1770-1779 / Michael O'Dea
10. A theatrophobic dramatist: J.-J. Rousseau's position in theatre historiography and on today's stage / Willmar Sauter
11. The judgement of Rousseau: Paride ed Elena by Gluck and Calzabigi (Vienna, 1770) / Magnus Tessing Schneider.
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9780729411998 ((paperback))
0729411990 ((paperback))
LCCN
2017430341
OCLC
1004959612
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