Reading Mahler : German culture and Jewish identity in fin-de-siècle Vienna /

Gustav Mahler's music is more popular than ever, yet few are aware of its roots in German literary and cultural history in general, and in fin-de-siècle Viennese culture in particular. Taking as its point of departure the many references to literature, philosophy, and the visual arts that Mahl...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Niekerk, Carl (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Rochester, New York : Camden House, 2010.
Series:Studies in German literature, linguistics, and culture.
Subjects:
Mahler, Gustav, > 1860-1911 > Criticism and interpretation.
Mahler, Gustav, > 1860-1911
German literature > History and criticism.
Music and literature.
Littérature allemande > Histoire et critique.
Musique et littérature.
MUSIC > Individual Composer & Musician.
German literature
Music and literature
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • The crisis of German culture. Titan : symphony of an anti-hero ; Des Knaben Wunderhorn : rediscovering the "Volk" ; Nietzsche and the crisis of German culture
  • German culture and its others. Rembrandt and the margins of German culture ; Goethe against German culture ; The two faces of German Orientalism.

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