Introduction

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents ix
3. Contributors xi
4. Introduction xv
5. 1. Don Giovanni: “And what communion hath light with darkness?” 1
6. 2. Don Juan and Faust: On the Interaction Between Two Literary Myths 19
7. 3. “Hidden Secrets of the Self ”: E. T. A. Hoffmann’s Reading of Don Giovanni 33
8. 4. Don Juan in Nicholas’s Russia (Pushkin’s The Stone Guest) 47
9. 5. Mörike’s Mozart and the Scent of a Woman 61
10. 6. The Gothic Libertine: The Shadow of Don Giovanni in Romantic Music and Culture 75
11. 7. Don Juan as an Idea 107
12. Kierkegaard Writes His Opera 119
13. 9. The Curse and Promise of the Absolutely Musical: Tristan und Isolde and Don Giovanni 137
14. 10. Authority and Judgment in Mozart’s Don Giovanni and Wagner’s Ring 161
15. 11. Mozart’s Don Giovanni in Shaw’s Comedy 181
16. 12. Giovanni auf Naxos 193
17. 13. Homage to Adorno’s “Homage to Zerlina” 211
18. 14. Adorno and the Don 225