Brogan, Eileen
(2009)
Subjective identity in the operas of James
Wilson.
Maynooth Musicology: Postgraduate Journal, 2.
pp. 172-189.
Abstract
The concept of subjective identity and its expression in operas by
Alexander Zemlinsky (1871-1942) is central to Sherry Denise Lee’s
research entitled ‘Opera, Narrative, and the Modernist Crisis of
Historical Subjectivity’.3 Lee’s thesis examines Theodor W. Adorno’s
(1902-1969) assertion that modern works of art are dialectical
expressions of the individual creative artist alienated within the
workings of modern society. Lee draws on Adorno’s musical aesthetics,
Freudian and post-Freudian psychoanalytical theories and on writers
who have contributed to this concept. While having significant recourse
to Adorno’s appraisal of these operas in his 1959 essays on Zemlinsky,
Lee challenges Adorno’s views on both libretti and compositional style
by examining both in terms of the issues of subjective identity, which
they explore.
| Item Type: |
Article
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| Keywords: |
Subjective identity;
opera; James Wilson; Maynooth Musicology; |
| Academic Unit: |
Faculty of Arts,Celtic Studies and Philosophy > Music |
| Item ID: |
9478 |
| Depositing User: |
IR Editor
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| Date Deposited: |
14 May 2018 16:59 |
| Journal or Publication Title: |
Maynooth Musicology: Postgraduate Journal |
| Publisher: |
Maynooth Musicology |
| Refereed: |
Yes |
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