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Mad Loves

Women and Music in Offenbach's Les Contes D'Hoffmann

By: Heather Hadlock

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Mad Loves

Women and Music in Offenbach's Les Contes D'Hoffmann

By: Heather Hadlock

In a lively exploration of Jacques Offenbach's final masterpiece, Heather Hadlock shows how Les Contes d'Hoffmann summed up not only the composer's career but also a century of Romantic culture. A strange fusion of irony and profundity, frivolity and nightmare, the opera unfolds as a series of dreamlike episodes, peopled by such archetypes as the Poet, the Beautiful Dying Girl, the Automaton, the Courtesan, and the Mesmerist. Hadlock shows how these episodes comprise a collective unconscious. Her analyses touch on topics ranging from the self-reflexive style of the protagonist and the music, to parallels between nineteenth-century discourses of theater and medical science, to fascination with the hysterical female subject. Les Contes d'Hoffmann is also examined as both a continuation and a retraction of tendencies in Offenbach's earlier operettas and opéra-comiques. Hadlock investigates the political climate of the 1870s that influenced the composer's vision and the reception of his last work. Drawing upon insights from feminist, literary, and cultural theory, she considers how the opera's music and libretto took shape within a complex literary and theatrical tradition. Finally, Hadlock ponders the enigmas posed by the score of this unfinished opera, which has been completed many times and by many different hands since its composer's death shortly before the premiere in 1881. In this book, the "mad loves" that drive Les Contes d'Hoffmann--a poet's love, a daughter's love, erotic love, and fatal attraction to music--become figures for the fascination exercised by opera itself.

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175

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Princeton University Press

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0691170851

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9780691170855

Dream Jobs in Sports Marketing

By: Heather Moore Niver

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Dream Jobs in Sports Marketing

By: Heather Moore Niver

For those who are interested in sports, and those interested in the nonphysical marketing side of sports, this book offers an exhilarating look at the people who make the glitz and glamor happen. Athlete-endorsed products, Times Square billboards, and sports video games, sports marketers are the savvy professionals who help spread the word about major athletes, teams, and events. Additionally, there are many facets and areas of sports marketing that appeal to a range of different personality types. This book will inform readers of the various aspects of sports marketing, allowing great insight to those interested about where they may fit in this exciting and energizing industry.

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128

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The Rosen Publishing Group, Inc

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1448869056

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9781448869053

Mad Loves

Women and Music in Offenbach's Les Contes D'Hoffmann

By: Heather Hadlock

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Women and Music in Offenbach's Les Contes D'Hoffmann

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Holding Out for a Zero

By: Heather Wardell

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Holding Out for a Zero

By: Heather Wardell

“I’m doing the right thing, not feeding myself. It’s the only thing I can do, so I will do it. Gloria can somehow have the energy I don’t take in, and it will help her stay alive.” Twenty years ago, fourteen-year-old Valerie rushed off for lunch with her boyfriend instead of properly putting away a packet of balloons, and her little brother choked to death on his third birthday. In response, Valerie locked down every aspect of her life so she could never lose control like that again, and she’s still doing that today. So when her sister Gloria is found comatose after an apparently random attack, Valerie is desperate to do something, anything, to save her only remaining sibling. But as a financial controller for a “nothing bigger than a size six” fashion designer, she has no medical background and no idea of how to help. But she has to find a way. Since Gloria has always wanted to be a size zero, Valerie hits on food as the answer: by eating less, she will lose the weight Gloria now can’t and somehow save her sister that way. But when “eating less” turns into a frantic starvation diet to reach size zero before Gloria dies, will Valerie’s self control save her sister or destroy her own life?

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Heather Wardell

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1988016010

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9781988016016

Over the Lotion

By: Heather Scott,Lesley Beiro

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Over the Lotion

By: Heather Scott,Lesley Beiro

Based on a true story of a courageous woman who overcomes the struggles of marriage to an alcoholic, and discovers her own strength and identity in the midst of changing times in South Africa. Join Heather in her journey from innocence to independence. Follow Heather's journey "Over the Lotion" in this gripping 'Coming to America' story. A MUST Read!

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Independently Published

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1549847457

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9781549847455

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