001479417 000__ 05771nam\a22010095i\4500 001479417 001__ 1479417 001479417 003__ DE-B1597 001479417 005__ 20231026035025.0 001479417 006__ m\\\\\o\\d\\\\\\\\ 001479417 007__ cr\un\nnnunnun 001479417 008__ 210830t20132004mau\\\\\o\\d\z\\\\\\eng\d 001479417 019__ $$a(OCoLC)979880526 001479417 020__ $$a9780674335639 001479417 0247_ $$a10.4159/harvard.9780674335639$$2doi 001479417 035__ $$a(DE-B1597)253038 001479417 035__ $$a(OCoLC)449951688 001479417 040__ $$aDE-B1597$$beng$$cDE-B1597$$erda 001479417 0410_ $$aeng 001479417 044__ $$amau$$cUS-MA 001479417 072_7 $$aMUS000000$$2bisacsh 001479417 08204 $$a782.1 001479417 1001_ $$aHutcheon, Linda, $$eauthor.$$4aut$$4http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut 001479417 24510 $$aOpera :$$bThe Art of Dying /$$cMichael Hutcheon, Linda Hutcheon. 001479417 250__ $$aReprint 2014 001479417 264_1 $$aCambridge, MA : $$bHarvard University Press, $$c[2013] 001479417 264_4 $$c©2004 001479417 300__ $$a1 online resource (239 p.) :$$b10 halftones 001479417 336__ $$atext$$btxt$$2rdacontent 001479417 337__ $$acomputer$$bc$$2rdamedia 001479417 338__ $$aonline resource$$bcr$$2rdacarrier 001479417 347__ $$atext file$$bPDF$$2rda 001479417 4900_ $$aConvergences: Inventories of the Present ;$$v29 001479417 50500 $$tFrontmatter -- $$tContents -- $$tIllustrations -- $$tIntroduction Music and "Murky Death" -- $$t1. The Contemplation of Death -- $$t2. Eros and Thanatos Richard Wagner's Tristan und Isolde -- $$t3. "All That Is, Ends" Living while Dying in Wagner's Der Ring des Nibelungen -- $$t4. Orphic Rituals of Bereavement -- $$t5. "'Tis a Consummation Devoutly to Be Wish'd" Staging Suicide -- $$t6. The Undead -- $$tCoda "Be Acquainted with Death Betimes..." -- $$tNotes -- $$tAcknowledgments -- $$tIndex -- $$tBackmatter 001479417 506__ $$aAccess limited to authorized users. 001479417 520__ $$aOur modern narratives of science and technology can only go so far in teaching us about the death that we must all finally face. Can an act of the imagination, in the form of opera, take us the rest of the way? Might opera, an art form steeped in death, teach us how to die, as this provocative work suggests? In Opera: The Art of Dying a physician and a literary theorist bring together scientific and humanistic perspectives on the lessons on living and dying that this extravagant and seemingly artificial art imparts. Contrasting the experience of mortality in opera to that in tragedy, the Hutcheons find a more apt analogy in the medieval custom of contemplatio mortis--a dramatized exercise in imagining one's own death that prepared one for the inevitable end and helped one enjoy the life that remained. From the perspective of a contemporary audience, they explore concepts of mortality embodied in both the common and the more obscure operatic repertoire: the terror of death (in Poulenc's Dialogues of the Carmelites); the longing for death (in Wagner's Tristan and Isolde); preparation for the good death (in Wagner's Ring of the Nibelung); and suicide (in Puccini's Madama Butterfly). In works by Janacek, Ullmann, Berg, and Britten, among others, the Hutcheons examine how death is made to feel logical and even right morally, psychologically, and artistically--how, in the art of opera, we rehearse death in order to give life meaning. 001479417 538__ $$aMode of access: Internet via World Wide Web. 001479417 546__ $$aIn English. 001479417 5880_ $$aDescription based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 30. 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