Surviving the Wreck: Herman Melville, The Death of Klinghoffer, and the Power of Catastrophe
Alice Goodman’s libretto for The Death of Klinghoffer, John Adams’s second opera, is replete with echoes of Melville; similarities with Moby-Dick abound in terms of plot and because both works appear shrouded in an atmosphere of moral uncertainty and metaphysical doubt. Does this mean that Goodman’s...
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Université Toulouse - Jean Jaurès
2022-10-01
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| Series: | Miranda: Revue Pluridisciplinaire du Monde Anglophone |
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| Online Access: | http://journals.openedition.org/miranda/47706 |