The juggler of Notre Dame and the medievalizing of modernity. Volume 4, Picture that : making a show of the jongleur /
"This ambitious and vivid study in six volumes explores the journey of a single, electrifying story, from its first incarnation in a medieval French poem through its prolific rebirth in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. The Juggler of Notre Dame tells how an entertainer abandons the world...
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Cambridge :
Open Book Publishers,
2018.
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Table of Contents:
- Note to the Reader
- 1. The Composer ; The Jongleur in the Circle of Richard Wagner ; Tannhäuser ; The Medievalesque Oeuvre of Jules Massenet ; The Tall Tale of the Libretto ; The Middle Ages of the Opera ; Sage Wisdom ; Juggling Secular and Ecclesiastical ; The Jongleur of Monte Carlo ; Jean, Bénédictine, and Selling Gothic ; The Musician of Women ; The All-Male Cast
- 2. The Diva ; Mary Garden Takes America ; Oscar Hammerstein I ; Making a Travesti of Massenet's Tenor ; Selling the Jongleur ; Mary Garden Dances the Role ; The Role of Dance ; Sexless, Sexy... and What Sex? ; The Jongleur Goes to Notre Dame ; The College Woman as Jongleur: Skirting the Issue ; From Opera to Vaudeville
- 3. Images of the Virgin ; The Power of Madonnas in the Round ; Madonnas in Majesty ; Animated Images ; Miracles of Madonnas
- 4. The Crypt ; Grottoes and Crypts ; Madonnas in Crypts ; Cistercian Crypts ; Gothic Crypts
- 5. Enlightening the Virgin ; The Incandescent Virgin ; Dressing Madonnas: What Are You Wearing? ; Carrying a Torch for Mary ; Lighting Effects: Lights, Camera, Action! ; Voyeurism and Performance Art
- 6. Cloistering the USA: Everybody Must Get Stones ; Stony Silence ; Collecting Clusters of Cloisters ; A Gothic Room of Her Own: Vanderbilt and Gardner ; Raymond Pitcairn and the "New Church" ; The Hearst Castle ; The Last Hurrah
- 7. The Great War and Its Aftermath ; Ruining Europe ; Reims: Martyr City and Cathedral ; Rebuilding Europe in America ; German Expressionism ; French Piety ; Painting the Juggler ; American Gothic
- Notes
- Notes to Chapter 1
- Notes to Chapter 2
- Notes to Chapter 3
- Notes to Chapter 4
- Notes to Chapter 5
- Notes to Chapter 6
- Notes to Chapter 7
- Bibliography
- Abbreviations
- Referenced Works
- List of Illustrations
- Index.