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‘Muddying the Wells’: Modernist Literary Instincts and the Operatic Ideal

‘Muddying the Wells’: Modernist Literary Instincts and the Operatic Ideal <jats:p> Irene Morra shows how the conflict between words and music that was contested in “Billy Budd” can be extended to almost all modern British opera. Morra argues persuasively that a number of modernist writers came to view the libretto “as an alternative literary genre, one that would allow for the expression of literary ideals of musicality”. </jats:p> http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Modernist Cultures Edinburgh University Press

‘Muddying the Wells’: Modernist Literary Instincts and the Operatic Ideal

Modernist Cultures , Volume 3 (1): 71 – Oct 1, 2007

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Publisher
Edinburgh University Press
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© Edinburgh University Press, 2010
ISSN
2041-1022
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1753-8629
DOI
10.3366/E2041102209000331
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Abstract

<jats:p> Irene Morra shows how the conflict between words and music that was contested in “Billy Budd” can be extended to almost all modern British opera. Morra argues persuasively that a number of modernist writers came to view the libretto “as an alternative literary genre, one that would allow for the expression of literary ideals of musicality”. </jats:p>

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Modernist CulturesEdinburgh University Press

Published: Oct 1, 2007

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