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Table of ContentsAcknowledgments Richard Begam and Matthew Wilson SmithIntroduction Part OneWorld War I and Before: Crises of Gender and Theatricality 1. Matthew Wilson Smith"Laughing at the Redeemer: Kundry and the Paradox of Parsifal" 2. Daniel Albright "Materlinck, Debussy and Modernism" 3. Klara Moricz "Echoes of the Self: Cosmic Loneliness in Bartok's Duke Bluebeard's Castle" Part TwoInterwar Modernism: Movement and Countermovement 4. Bryan Gilliam"The Great War and Its Aftermath: Straussand Hofmannthal's 'Third-Way Modernism'" 5. Bernadette Meyler "Adorno's Shifting Wozzeck" 6. Derek Katz"Many Modernisms, Two Makropulos Cases:Capek, Janacek and the Shifting Avant-Gardes of Inter-war Prague" 7. Richard Begam"Schoenberg, Modernism and Degeneracy" 8. Cyrena Pondrom"Gertrude Stein, Minimalism and Modern Opera" Part ThreeOpera after World War II: Tensions of Institutional Modernism 9. Herbert S. Lindenberger, "Stravinsky, Auden and the Mid-Century Modernism of The Rake's Progress" 10. Irene Morra " Gloriana and the New Elizabethan Age" 11. Linda and Michael Hutcheon"One Saint in Eight Tableaux: The Untimely Modernism of Olivier Messiaen's Saint Francois d'Assise" 12. Joy H. Calico" Saariaho's L'amour de loin: Modernist Opera in the Twenty-First Century" Notes on ContributorsIndex
