A vision of the Orient : texts, intertexts, and contexts of Madame Butterfly /

Best known as the story from the 1904 Puccini opera, the compelling modern myth of Madame Butterfly has been read, watched, and re-interpreted for over a century, from Pierre Loti's 1887 novel Madame Chrysanthème to A.R. Gurney's 1999 play Far East. This fascinating collaborative volume e...

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Tác giả khác: Wisenthal, J. L., 1940- (Biên tập viên)
Định dạng: Licensed eBooks
Ngôn ngữ:Tiếng Anh
Được phát hành: Toronto [Ont.] : University of Toronto Press, ©2006.
Loạt:CEL - Canadian Publishers Collection.
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Mục lục:
  • Pre-texts. Inventing the Orient / Jonathan Wisenthal
  • Texts. Mounting butterflies / Susan McClary ; Cio-Cio-San the geisha / Vera Micznik ; 'Re-Orienting' the vision : ethnicity and authenticity from Suzuki to Comrade Chin / Melinda Boyd ; That old familiar song : the theatre of culture in David Henry Hwang's M. Butterfly / Kate McInturff
  • Intertexts. Late mutations of cinema's Butterfly / Bart Testa ; White Nagasaki/White Japan and a post-atomic Butterfly : Joshua Logan's Sayonara (1957) / Brian McIlroy ; Playing Butterfly with David Henry Hwang and Robert Lepage / Sherrill Grace
  • Contexts. Madame Butterfly and the absence of empire / Richard Cavell ; The taming of the Oriental shrew : the two Asias in Puccini's Madama Butterfly and Turandot / Maria Ng ; Iron Butterfly : Cio-Cio-San and Japanese imperialism / Joshua S. Mostow ; Madame Butterfly : behind every great woman ... / Joy James ; M. Butterfly : staging choices and their meanings / Rachel Ditor and Jan Selman.