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The Don Giovanni moment [electronic resource] : essays on the legacy of an opera / - New York : Columbia University Press, c2006. - 1 online resource (xxii, 238 pages) : illustrations, music. - Columbia themes in philosophy, social criticism, and the arts .

Includes bibliographical references.

Don Giovanni : "And what communion hath light with darkness?" / Ingrid Rowland -- Don Juan and Faust : on the interaction between two literary myths / Ernst Osterkamp -- "Hidden secrets of the self" : E.T.A. Hoffmann's reading of Don Giovanni / Richard Eldridge -- Don Juan in Nicholas's Russia (Pushkin's The stone guest) / Boris Gasparov -- Mörike's Mozart and the scent of a woman / Hans Rudolf Vaget -- The Gothic libertine : the shadow of Don Giovanni in German romantic music and culture / Thomas S. Grey -- Don Juan as an idea / Bernard Williams -- Kierkegaard writes his opera / Daniel Herwitz -- The curse and promise of the absolutely musical : Tristan and Isolde and Don Giovanni / Lydia Goehr -- Authority and judgment in Mozart's Don Giovanni and Wagner's Ring / Philip Kitcher and Richard Schacht -- Mozart's Don Giovanni in Shaw's comedy / Agnes Heller -- Giovanni auf Naxos / Brian Soucek -- Homage to Adorno's 'Homage to Zerlina' / Berthold Hoeckner -- Adorno and the Don / Nikolaus Bacht.

ISBN: 0231137540 (alk. paper) 0231510640 (ebook) 9780231137546

Subjects--Topical Terms:
Music and literature.
Opera.

Dewey Class. No.: 782.1