Dreaming with Open Eyes examines visual symbolism in late seventeenth-century Italian opera, contextualizing the genre amid the broad ocularcentric debates emerging at the crossroads of the early modern period and the Enlightenment.
Unfolding in a narrative fashion, the text explores facets of the philoso.
Smith reevaluates significant aspects of the Arcadian reform aesthetic and establishes a historically informed method of Opera criticism for modern scholars and interpreters.
Ayana O.
Dreaming with Open Eyes examines visual symbolism in late seventeenth-century Italian opera, contextualizing the genre amid the broad ocularcentric debates emerging at the crossroads of the early modern period and the Enlightenment