In Search of Opera

[Dave Monroe]

>From Carolyn Abbate, In Search of Opera (Princeton,
NJ: Princeton UP, 2001), Ch. 2, "Magic Flute,
Nocturnal Sun," pp. 55-106 ...

"... the bird is a famous figure in eighteenth-century
mechanist philosophy, since the perfected reproduction
of birdsong by automata and 'bird-organs' made them
into highly resonant objects in eighteenth-century
philosphical discourse...." (p. 76ff.)

Et soforthiam.  And see the Ch. 3, Metempsychotic
Wagner" (pp. 107-45) on "the 'same woman' problem" (p.
118), which might well have some resonance with V.,
and, what the hell, the rest of the book, which I'm
only just getting to ...

http://pup.princeton.edu/titles/7140.html

Okay, sorry to have gotten to this one so long after
the fact (i.e., the recent M&D reading), but it welled
up out of the cracks whilst pacvking, so ... so
session timing out here, gotta run, will be back ...

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