Description: Fandom, Authenticity, and Opera : Mad Acts and Letter Scenes in Fin-de-siècle Russia, Paperback by Fishzon, A., ISBN 1349438200, ISBN-13 9781349438204, Like New Used, Free shipping in the US In Russia at the turn of the twentieth century, printed literature and performances - from celebrity narratives and opera fandom to revolutionary acts and political speeches - frequently articulated extreme emotional states and passionate belief. A uniquely intense approach to public life and private expression - the melodramatic imagination - is at the center of this study. Previously, scholars have only indirectly addressed the everyday appropriation of melodramatic aesthetics in Russia, choosing to concentrate on canonical texts and producers of mass culture. Collective fantasies and affects are daunting objects of study, difficult to render, and almost impossible to prove empirically. Music and art historians, with some notable exceptions, have been reluctant to discuss reception for similar reasons. By analyzing the artifacts and practices of a commercialized opera culture, author Anna Fishzon provides a solution to these challenges. Her focus on celebrity and fandom as features of the melodramatic imagination helps illuminate Russian modernity and provides the groundwork for comparative studies of fin-de-sicle European popular and high culture, selfhood, authenticity, and political theater.
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Book Title: Fandom, Authenticity, and Opera : Mad Acts and Letter Scenes in Fin-De-Siècle Russia
Number of Pages: Xviii, 273 Pages
Language: English
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Publication Year: 2013
Topic: Social History, Modern / General, Europe / General
Illustrator: Yes
Genre: History
Item Weight: 130.4 Oz
Author: A. Fishzon
Item Length: 8.5 in
Book Series: Palgrave Studies in Cultural and Intellectual History Ser.
Item Width: 5.5 in
Format: Trade Paperback
