W.A. Mozart’s Die Zauberflöte : gender roles revisited

dc.contributor.advisorFeenstra, Marianne
dc.contributor.coadvisorStanford, H.J.
dc.contributor.emaillouiswfourie@gmail.com
dc.contributor.postgraduateFourie, Louis Wilhelm
dc.date.accessioned2018-12-05T08:06:26Z
dc.date.available2018-12-05T08:06:26Z
dc.date.created2009/05/18
dc.date.issued2018
dc.descriptionDissertation (MMus)--University of Pretoria, 2018.
dc.description.abstractThe aim of this study is to determine to what extent the way in which gender roles are portrayed in Mozart’s opera Die Zauberflöte reflect the conventions of the time. A case study forms the basis for the research, where narrative data analysis is used to compare the non-indexical material found in the documents. A close reading of the libretto forms the first part of the analysis, after which four documents used as source material for the libretto are analysed, namely De Troyes’ Yvain, Terrasson’s Sethos, Von Born’s Über die Mysterien, and Wieland’s Dschinnistan. To compare the libretto to other contemporary German literature of its time, an analysis of Goethe’s Torquato Tasso and Schiller’s Don Karlos and Maria Stuart is undertaken. All of these analyses are done within the theoretical frameworks of feminism and gender studies. The research also incorporates elements of Cultural Materialism. It is found that Mozart’s opera takes a middle road amidst the contradictory viewpoints of the time (1791) by pitting weak male characters (Tamino and Papageno) against strong female characters (Pamina, the Königin and the Damen) in a misogynistic setting that gains the upper hand through Sarastro.
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dc.description.degreeMMus
dc.description.departmentMusic
dc.identifier.citationFourie, LW 2018, W.A. Mozart’s Die Zauberflöte : gender roles revisited, MMus Dissertation, University of Pretoria, Pretoria, viewed yymmdd <http://hdl.handle.net/2263/68005>
dc.identifier.otherS2018
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/2263/68005
dc.language.isoen
dc.publisherUniversity of Pretoria
dc.rights© 2018 University of Pretoria. All rights reserved. The copyright in this work vests in the University of Pretoria. No part of this work may be reproduced or transmitted in any form or by any means, without the prior written permission of the University of Pretoria.
dc.subjectUnrestricted
dc.subjectUCTD
dc.subjectDie Zauberflöte
dc.subjectWolfgang Amadeus Mozart
dc.subjectJohan Wolfgang von Goethe
dc.subjectFriedrich Schiller
dc.subjectFeminism
dc.subjectGender studies
dc.subjectCultural Materialism
dc.subjectGerman literature
dc.subjectEnlightenment
dc.subject18th -century
dc.subject.otherMusic theses SDG-04
dc.subject.otherSDG-04: Quality education
dc.subject.otherMusic theses SDG-05
dc.subject.otherSDG-05: Gender equality
dc.subject.otherMusic theses SDG-10
dc.subject.otherSDG-10: Reduced inequalities
dc.subject.otherMusic theses SDG-16
dc.subject.otherSDG-16: Peace, justice and strong institutions
dc.titleW.A. Mozart’s Die Zauberflöte : gender roles revisited
dc.typeDissertation

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