Modernism and the Cult of Mountains: Music, Opera, Cinema (Ashgate Interdisciplinary Studies in Opera)

by Christopher Morris (Author), Christopher Morris (Author), Christopher Morris (Author)

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  Hardcover
  2012

  $157.30

  Adopting and transforming the Romantic fascination with mountains, modernism in the German-speaking lands claimed the Alps as a space both of resistance and of escape. This book investigates operatic representations of the high mountains in German modernism.