Mendelssohn, Goethe, and the Walpurgis Night
The Heathen Muse in European Culture, 1700-1850
- Author: Cooper, John Michael
Dozens of excellently selected illustrations. . . Thoughtful and warmly written. . . .Its] themes are interwoven in an imaginative, careful way, made to come alive for readers familiar or not... — More…
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$43.50Contents
- The Cultural and Religious Prehistories
- Tolerance, Translation, and Acceptance: Goethe's and Mendelssohn's Voices in European Cultural Discourse to ca. 1850
- Reality and Illusion, Past and Present: Goethe and the Walpurgisnacht
- The Composition, Revision, and Publication of Mendelssohn's Die erste Walpurgisnacht
- The Sources, Structure, and Narrative of Mendelssohn's Walpurgisnacht Settings
- At the Crossroads of Identity: Critical and Artistic Responses to Goethe's and Mendelssohn's Walpurgisnacht Treatments
- Preforming Identity and Alterity: Die erste WalpurgisnachtThen and Now