EURO ST 10 Lecture Notes - Lecture 18: Bsc Young Boys, Antifeminism, Dialectic
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Our basic approach is to look at this opera as a product of enlightenment values. We"re interested in seeing if it captures or depicts as well problems or limitations of those values. And, perhaps, some kind of interesting way of moving beyond. How do we see the engrained prejudices and an enlightened way. Their call for manly virtues of self-control seem to bring out a decidedly male chauvinist and anti-feminist side of the enlightenment. Address this later in discussing the opposition between sarastro and the. Music might reinforce oppositions but also overcome them in a unique way via a harmonizing of differences. Does music in general offer a unique way of working with oppositions and. This point will emerge again at end of today"s lecture. In pursuing this question, i am also trying to emphasize the uniqueness of the genre. Opera is not just a text or even a play. It includes music and therefore can do something special.
