Literary Studies
Music
Bedingungen ihrer Entstehung. Sie zeigen, wie in diesen Texten ein Mythos von Benjowsky geschaffen wird, der auch als nationaler Erinnerungsort von Bedeutung ist. Ethnische Stereotypen in diesen Texten werden aufgezeigt, koloniale Mythen dekonstruiert.
Constantin Floros
Wolfgang Amadé Mozart Undeserved Gift to Humanity Bern, 2020. 242 pp., 183 fig. b/w.
Florian Zappe • Andrew S. Gross (eds.)
Surveillance | Society | Culture
Open Access
hb. • ISBN 978-3-0343-3846-2 CHF 64.– / €D 54.– / €A 56.50 / € 51.40 / £ 42.– / US-$ 61.95 eBook (SUL) • ISBN 978-3-0343-3935-3 CHF 64.– / €D 53.97 / €A 56.54 / € 51.40 / £ 42.– / US-$ 61.95
Berlin, 2020.246 pp., 14 fig. b/w. Contributions to English and American Literary Studies (CEALS). Vol. 3 hb. • ISBN 978-3-631-79881-2 CHF 65.– / €D 54.90 / €A 57.50 / € 52.30 / £ 43.– / US-$ 63.95 eBook (SUL) • ISBN 978-3-631-80235-9
What only a few decades ago would have been considered a totalitarian nightmare seems to have become reality: Surveillance practices and technologies have infiltrated all aspects of our lives, forcing us to reconsider established notions of privacy, subjectivity, and the status of the individual in society. The United States is central to contemporary concerns about surveillance. American companies are at the forefront of developing surveillance technologies; and government agencies, in the name of security and law and order, are monitoring our words and actions more than ever before. This book brings together an interdisciplinary group of scholars to explore the implications of what many consider to be a far-reaching social, political, and cultural transformation.
Mozart’s ambivalent personality offers a key to a deeper understanding of his music. He could be merry, even boisterous, but from many of his works speaks a deep seriousness. Both mirth and melancholy stamp his being. His operatic music includes both the comic and the tragic. The present study treats the special character of his musical language and the relations between his personality and his multiform oeuvre. Its mission is to grasp the peculiarities of his operatic work, his opere serie, opere buffe and singspiels. The chapter “The Program in the Master Overtures” initiates the series of semantic analyses the author has pursued in other books. In the 19th century, it was fashionable to compare Mozart to Raffael. But the comparison is askew, as the graceful is only one side of his personality. About the German edition Chapter II “presents new and even surprising insights into the ‘program’ in Mozart’s master overtures. The connection between overture and drama is viewed from both compositional and semantic points of view. The studies, written with great stylistic and literary knowledge, enter deep into Mozart’s way of working. For both amateurs and cognoscenti, Floros achieves ad better understanding, above all, of the musical interconnections.” (Rudolf Angermüller, Mitteilungen des Mozarteums)
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