Middlebrow Modernism : Britten’s Operas and the Great Divide /

Middlebrow Modernism : Britten’s Operas and the Great Divide /

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Main Author: Chowrimootoo, Christopher, 1985- (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Oakland, California : University of California Press, [2019]
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
Britten, Benjamin, > 1913-1976. > Operas.
Opera.
Modernism (Music)
Music > Philosophy and aesthetics.
MUSIC > History & Criticism.
Music.
Musique > 20e siecle > Philosophie et esthetique.
Modernisme (Musique) > Histoire > 20e siecle.
Music > 20th century > Philosophy and aesthetics.
Modernism (Music) > History > 20th century.
Opera > 20th century.
Operas (Britten, Benjamin)
History.
Electronic books.
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Table of Contents:
  • Middlebrow modernism
  • Sentimentality under erasure in Peter Grimes
  • The timely traditions of Albert Herring
  • The turn of the screw, or : the Gothic Melodrama of modernism
  • The burning fiery furnace and the redemption of religious Kitsch
  • Death in Venice and the aesthetics of sublimation.

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