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1 online resource (234 pages) : illustrations |
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Internationale Forschungen zur allgemeinen und vergleichenden Literaturwissenschaft, 0929-6999 ; 106 |
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Internationale Forschungen zur allgemeinen und vergleichenden Literaturwissenschaft ; 106. 0929-6999
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| Contents |
Preface; A Word about John McCarthy: Scholar, Teacher, and Colleague; Introduction to Practicing Progress: The Promise and Limitations of Enlightenment; Bestimmung(en) des Menschen. Zu einem Zentralthema des Aufkl©Þrungsdiskurses und einigen seiner Facetten im Umkreis Lessings; From Evil Eye to Poetic Eye: Witch Beliefs and Physiognomy in the Age of Enlightenment; Enlightenment According to Don Alfonso: Perilous Progress in Mozart's Cos©Ơ fan tutte; Casanova's Radical Enlightenment |
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Economic Value-Theory and Literary Culture in Late-Eighteenth Century Germany: The Debate over PhysiocracyThe Errors of Our Ways: The Relation of Literature to Culture in Goethe's Faust; "Von London und Hannover verlassen": Germans in America in the Eighteenth Century; Laocoon, Nathan the Wise, and the Contexts of Their Critical Reception in Nineteenth-Century American Reviews; Dialectic of the Biological Enlightenment: Nietzsche, Degeneration, and Eugenics; Humanity and Its Limits: Hannah Arendt Reads Lessing; The Use Value of Brecht's Enlightenment: Revisiting the 1960s in Germany |
| Summary |
The essay reads an Enlightened and modern critique of progress in Mozart's Cos fan tutte. With numerous references to other operas and texts, and with a storyline that emphasizes inevitable, yet mutable aspects of human nature, Cos presents an ambivalent picture of the ways in which even the most disinterested and best-informed attitude toward the past can affect the future. At the same time, the opera seems to embrace the notion of freedom of choice without rejecting tradition or repetition. The essay also comments on the performance of Cos in Zurich in 2000, conducted by Nikolaus Harnoncourt, who often works with authentic period instruments |
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Festschrift |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references |
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"John McCarthy's publications"-Page 229-234 |
| Notes |
English |
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Print version record |
| Subject |
German literature -- 18th century -- History and criticism.
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Authors, German -- 18th century
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Enlightenment -- Germany
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LITERARY CRITICISM -- European -- German.
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Authors, German
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Enlightenment
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German literature
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Germany
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| Genre/Form |
Festschriften
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Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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Festschriften.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
McCarthy, John A. (John Aloysius), 1942-
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Schade, Richard E.
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Sevin, Dieter.
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| ISBN |
9781429481175 |
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9789401203937 |
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9401203938 |
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142948117X |
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9042021462 |
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9789042021464 |
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