Così fan tutte, an opera of mimetic revelation
"Così fan tutte, the opera by Mozart and Da Ponte, features two couples as protagonists that noticeable resemble couples from classical literature, including Ovid's Collatinus and Lucretia, Cervantes' Anselmo and Camila, and Shakespeare's Leonatus and Imogen. In this book, Isabel...
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| Format: | Print Book |
| Language: | English |
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| Interlibrary Loan: | Interlibrary Loan for the Fachinformationsdienste (Specialized Information Services in Germany) |
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East Lansing
Michigan State University Press
2025
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| In: | Year: 2025 |
| Series/Journal: | Studies in violence, mimesis, and culture
Philosophy/Music/Opera |
| Further subjects: | B
Mimesis in literature
B Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus (1756-1791) Così fan tutte B Opera Psychological aspects B Music and literature B Mimesis in music B Libretto |
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| Summary: | "Così fan tutte, the opera by Mozart and Da Ponte, features two couples as protagonists that noticeable resemble couples from classical literature, including Ovid's Collatinus and Lucretia, Cervantes' Anselmo and Camila, and Shakespeare's Leonatus and Imogen. In this book, Isabel Díaz-Morlán reads these characters through the lens of René Girard's theory of unconscious mimetic desire to argue that their stories are an expression of a truth about human behavior. The book begins by exploring the sources of the libretto, comparing them with each other and with the libretto itself, to detect the themes that could reveal in the opera the mechanism of mimetic desire. This offers the groundwork for the analysis of key moments of the opera, in which the combined action of words, dramatic action and, above all, music, reveal how Ferrando and Guglielmo, Fiordiligi and Dorabella fall into mimetic rivalry, incitement to desire and hypocrisy, always within a méconnaissance that prevents them from recognizing what is happening to them, until the truth is finally unmasked"-- |
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| Item Description: | Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Physical Description: | xiv, 134 Seiten, Notenbeispiele |
| ISBN: | 978-1-61186-544-8 978-1-60917-790-4 978-1-62895-553-8 |
