Aida and the Empire of Emotions (Theodor W. Adorno, Edward Said, and Alexander Kluge)
This essay investigates how Theodor W. Adorno, Edward Said, and Alexander Kluge read Verdi’s opera Aida with respect to the theme of being buried alive, where being buried alive can occur not only to characters in an opera but, according to a discourse of fate, also to the opera itself. To write abo...
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Format: | Article |
Language: | English |
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Columbia University Libraries
2009-04-01
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Series: | Current Musicology |
Online Access: | https://journals.library.columbia.edu/index.php/currentmusicology/article/view/5154 |