Looking through a Different Lens, Beyond Censorship: The American Reception of Lady Macbeth of the Mtsensk District
Description:
The censorship of Lady Macbeth of the Mtsensk District is a familiar story to musicologists, but reception of the opera is not frequently mentioned. Examining the reception of a work can bring a work's relative importance into focus. In this thesis, German literary and reception theorist Hans Robert Jauss's model of the horizon of expectations is applied to reviews of American productions of Lady Macbeth. Curiosity about communism following the Great Depression in 1930s, America and American mu…
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Date:
August 2017
Creator:
Cassell, Holly
Partner:
UNT Libraries