Israel-Pelletier, Aimée;Israel-Pelletier, Aimée
Israel Pelletier argues that Trois contes demands a different kind of reading which di...
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1991; Vol. 00036
Israel Pelletier argues that Trois contes demands a different kind of reading which distinguishes it from Madame Bovary and other Flaubert texts. By the time he wrote this late work, Flaubert's attitude toward his characters and the role of fiction had changed to accommodate different social, political, and literary pressures. He constructed two opposing levels of meaning for each of the stories, straight and ironic, which produced a more fruitful way of addressing some of his concerns and assumptions about langauge and illusion. Included in this study are a provocative feminist reading of Un Coeur, an assessment of Saint Julien as Flaubert's attempt to come to terms with his originality as a writer, and an interpretation of Hérodias as an autobiography of the writing process.
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Critical Survey of Short Fiction: European Writers. 2012, p122-130.
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The Juggler of Notre Dame and the Medievalizing of Modernity : Volume 2: Medieval Meets Medievalism
Jan M. Ziolkowski;Jan M. Ziolkowski
This ambitious and vivid study in six volumes explores the journey of a single, electr...
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The Juggler of Notre Dame and the Medievalizing of Modernity : Volume 2: Medieval Meets Medievalism
2018; Vol. 00002
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 to join a monastery, but is suspected of blasphemy after dancing his devotion before a statue of the Madonna in the crypt; he is saved when the statue, delighted by his skill, miraculously comes to life. Jan Ziolkowski tracks the poem from its medieval roots to its rediscovery in late nineteenth-century Paris, before its translation into English in Britain and the United States. The visual influence of the tale on Gothic revivalism and vice versa in America is carefully documented with lavish and inventive illustrations, and Ziolkowski concludes with an examination of the twentieth century explosion of interest in The Juggler of Notre Dame and its place in mass culture today. Volume 2: Medieval Meets Medievalism deals with the influence of the tale in nineteenth- and early-twentieth-century Europe and America, and the development of literary medievalism at this time. Presented with great clarity and simplicity, Ziolkowski's work is accessible to the general reader, while its many new discoveries will be valuable to academics in such fields and disciplines as medieval studies, medievalism, philology, literary history, art history, folklore, performance studies, and reception studies.
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Civilization, Medieval--Influence - Medievalism - Middle Ages--Influence - Middle Ages--HistoriographyContent provider:
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The Real and the Sacred : Picturing Jesus in Nineteenth-Century Fiction
Jefferson J. A. Gatrall;Jefferson J. A. Gatrall
The figure of Jesus appears as a character in dozens of nineteenth-century novels, inc...
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The Real and the Sacred : Picturing Jesus in Nineteenth-Century Fiction
2014
The figure of Jesus appears as a character in dozens of nineteenth-century novels, including works by Balzac, Flaubert , Dickens, Dostoevsky, and others. The Real and the Sacred focuses in particular on two fiction genres: the Jesus redivivus tale and the Jesus novel. In the former, Christ makes surprise visits to earth, from rural Flanders (Balzac) and Muscovy (Turgenev) to the bustling streets of Paris (Flaubert ), Seville (Dostoevsky), Berlin, and Boston. In the latter, the historical Jesus wanders through the picturesque towns and plains of first-century Galilee and Judea, attracting followers and enemies. In short, authors subjected Christ, the second person of the Christian trinity, to the realist norms of secular fiction. Thus the Jesus of nineteenth-century fiction was both situated within a specific time and place, whether ancient or modern, and positioned before the gaze of increasingly daring literary portraitists. The highest artistic challenge for authors was to paint, using mere words, a faithful picture of Jesus in all his humanity. The incongruity of a sacred figure inhabiting secular literary forms nevertheless tested the limits of modern realist style no less than the doctrine of Christ's divinity. The international “quest of the historical Jesus” has been amply documented within the context of nineteenth-century biblical scholarship. Yet there has been no broad-based comparative study devoted to the depiction of Jesus in prose fiction over the same time period. The Real and the Sacred offers a comprehensive survey of this body of fiction, examining both the range of its Christ types and the varying formal means through which these types were represented. The nineteenth century—despite forecasts of God's death at the time—not only revived older Christ types but also witnessed the rise of new ones, including le Christ proletaire, the Mormon Christ, the Buddhist Christ, and the Tolstoyan Christ. Novelists played a crucial role in the invention and popularization of the historical Jesus in particular, one of modernity's major figures. These pioneering works of fiction, written by authors of diverse religious and national backgrounds, laid the formal groundwork for an enduring fascination with the historical Jesus in later fiction and film, from Mikhail Bulgakov's Master and Margarita to Mel Gibson's The Passion of the Christ. The book is enhanced by a gallery of illustrations of the historical Jesus as depicted by nineteenth-century artists.
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History of the Short Story
Salem Press;Salem Press
History of the Short Story is a single-volume reference that contains essays carefully...
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History of the Short Story
2017
History of the Short Story is a single-volume reference that contains essays carefully selected by our editors to provide the best information available about the topic covered. The essays in this volume include Short Fiction in Antiquity, The Twenty-first Century, Time Line, and Chronological List of Writers.
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Authors--Chronology - Short story--Handbooks, manuals, etc - Fiction--History and criticism--Handbooks, manuals, etcContent provider:
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Critical Survey of World Literature, Third Edition
Robert C. Evans;Robert C. Evans
A unique combination of biography and critical analysis, covering major writers from o...
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Critical Survey of World Literature, Third Edition
2017
A unique combination of biography and critical analysis, covering major writers from outside the United States and their significant works in fiction, drama, poetry, and nonfiction.
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Authors--Biography--Dictionaries - Literature--Bio-bibliography - Literature--History and criticism - Literature--Stories, plots, etcContent provider:
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Melville’s Philosophies
Branka Arsic;K. L. Evans;Branka Arsic;K. L. Evans
Melville's Philosophies departs from a long tradition of critical assessments of Melvi...
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Melville’s Philosophies
2017
Melville's Philosophies departs from a long tradition of critical assessments of Melville that dismissed his philosophical capacities as ingenious but muddled. Its contributors do not apply philosophy to Melville in order to detect just how much of it he knew or understood. To the contrary, they try to hear the philosophical arguments themselves-often very strange and quite radical-that Melville never stopped articulating and reformulating. What emerges is a Melville who is materialistically oriented in a radical way, a Melville who thinks about life forms not just in the context of contemporary sciences but also ontologically. Melville's Philosophies recovers a Melville who is a thinker of great caliber, which means obliquely but dramatically reversing the way the critical tradition has characterized his ideas. Finally, as a result of the readings collected here, Melville emerges as a very relevant thinker for contemporary philosophical concerns, such as the materialist turn, climate change, and post-humanism.
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Cyclopedia of Literary Places
Lenchner, Denise;Salem Press;Stableford, Brian M.;Rasmussen, R. Kent;Shuman...
This brand-new edition analyzes the use of place in over 1,300 literary works.
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Cyclopedia of Literary Places
2016
This brand-new edition analyzes the use of place in over 1,300 literary works.
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Setting (Literature) - Literary landmarks - Literature--EncyclopediasContent provider:
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Flaubert, Gustave Rouen, France; December 12, 1821 Croisset, France; May 8, 1880 Princ...
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Short Story Writers, Rev. ed. 2008, v. 2, p397-406.
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Historical Dictionary of French Literature
John Flower;John Flower
Almost all of us know French literature, even if we don't know French, because it is p...
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Historical Dictionary of French Literature
2013
Almost all of us know French literature, even if we don't know French, because it is probably the second largest and certainly the most translated into English. And, even if we don't read, we would have seen film and television versions (think Count of Monte-Cristo) and even a musical rendition (Les Mis). So this is a particularly interesting volume in the literature series, since it covers French literature from the earliest times to the present. It is also a particularly rich literature, espousing ever genre from poetry, to novel, to biography, to drama, and adopting every style, including realism and surrealism, and expressing the views of all classes and political stands, with recently strong feminist and gay strains.Obviously, the core dictionary section includes among its panoply of often substantial and detailed entries, hundreds of authors, dozens of significant works, the various styles mentioned above and many others, events that have impacted literature such as the Dreyfus Affair and the Algerian War, and literary prizes. The chronology manages to cover about 1,200 years of literary output. And the introduction sets it all out neatly from one historical and literary period to the next. The bibliography, broken down by period and author, directs us to further reading in both French and English.
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French literature--DictionariesContent provider:
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2008
Massimo Mastrogregori;Massimo Mastrogregori
Die International Bibliographiy of Historical Sciences verzeichnet jährlich die bedeut...
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2008
2013; Vol. 02008
Die International Bibliographiy of Historical Sciences verzeichnet jährlich die bedeutendsten Neuerscheinungen geschichtswissenschaftlicher Monographien und Zeitschriftenartikel weltweit, die inhaltlich von der Vor- und Frühgeschichte bis zur jüngsten Vergangenheit reichen. Sie ist damit die derzeit einzige laufende Bibliographie dieser Art, die thematisch, zeitlich und geographisch ein derart breites Spektrum abdeckt. Innerhalb der systematischen Gliederung nach Zeitalter, Region oder historischer Disziplin sind die Werke nach Autorennamen oder charakteristischem Titelhauptwort aufgelistet.
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Critical Survey of Short Fiction: European Writers
Charles E. May;Charles E. May
Discusses major writers from many different regions of Europe. The essays include such...
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Critical Survey of Short Fiction: European Writers
2012
Discusses major writers from many different regions of Europe. The essays include such writers as Franz Kafka, Hans Christian Andersen, the Brothers Grimm, Homer, Miguel de Cervantes, Dante, and Anais Nin.
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Short story--Bio-bibliography - Short story - Authors, European--Biography--Dictionaries - NovelleContent provider:
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Critical Survey of Short Fiction: World Writers
Charles E. May;Charles E. May
Examines writers from a wide range of different countries, including Argentina's Jorge...
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Critical Survey of Short Fiction: World Writers
2012
Examines writers from a wide range of different countries, including Argentina's Jorge Luis Borges, China's Ha Jin, India's Salman Rushdie, and Russia's Alexander Puskin. New writers include Japan's Haruki Murakami, and Jamaican Michelle Cliff.
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Short story--Bio-bibliography - Short story - NovelleContent provider:
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Critical Survey of Short Fiction: Topical Essays
Charles E. May;Charles E. May
Provides overview essays organized into three categories: theories, themes & types, hi...
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Critical Survey of Short Fiction: Topical Essays
2012
Provides overview essays organized into three categories: theories, themes & types, history of short fiction, and short fiction around the world. New overviews include experimental short fiction, twenty-first century short fiction, and Spanish short fiction.
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Fiction--History and criticism - Short story - NovelleContent provider:
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Critical Survey of Short Fiction, Fourth Edition
Author Unknown;Author Unknown
This volume discusses major writers from many different regions of Europe. The essays ...
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Critical Survey of Short Fiction, Fourth Edition
2012
This volume discusses major writers from many different regions of Europe. The essays include such writers as Franz Kafka, Hans Christian Andersen, the Brothers Grimm, Homer, Miguel de Cervantes, Dante, and Anais Nin.
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Short story--Bio-bibliography - Short story - NovelleContent provider:
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Dictionary of Literary Characters
Sollars, Michael David;Sollars, Michael David
Includes indexes.
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Dictionary of Literary Characters
2011
Includes indexes.
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Masterplots
Mazzeno, Laurence W.;Mazzeno, Laurence W.
A classic reference work for more than sixty years, Masterplots analyzes the most impo...
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Masterplots
2011
A classic reference work for more than sixty years, Masterplots analyzes the most important works in all genres -- long fiction, short fiction, poetry, drama, and nonfiction -- throughout history and around the world, helping to define and critique the literary canon. Salem's most popular title, Masterplots, is being revised for the first time since 1996. Masterplots, Fourth Edition is an expanded and updated version of 1996's Masterplots, Third Edition which was itself a culmination of the Masterplots sets published at intervals since 1949. Masterplots, Fourth Edition, in twelve volumes, retains the original purpose of the Masterplots concept: providing fundamental reference data, plot synopses where applicable, and critical evaluations of a comprehensive selection of English-language and world literature that has been translated into English. The essays are in alphabetical order by title, and each includes an annotated bibliography to aid readers in further study. Masterplots, Fourth Edition features 2,220 essays in 12 volumes: 438 essays are newly written, 98 feature thoroughly revised or replaced plot synopses or critical evaluations; and 1,684 have been previously published but reedited for this new edition. No titles from the previous edition were dropped. The 1,684 titles from the 1996 set were carefully reviewed for currency, accuracy, biased language, and quality of critical analysis before inclusion in the new edition. In adding new titles, the editors considered classroom curricula at both high school and college levels, as well as the broader context of literary culture both within and beyond North America. Editors added classics that had been previously overlooked and contemporary classics that represent a range of cultural identities and diverse modern experiences. - Publisher.
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Literature--History and criticism - Literature--Stories, plots, etcContent provider:
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Gustave Flaubert : Rouen, France; December 12, 1821 Croisset, France; May 8, 1880 P , ...
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Critical Survey of Long Fiction. 2010, v. 3, p1559-1567.
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The A to Z of the Ottoman Empire
Selcuk Aksin Somel;Selcuk Aksin Somel
The Ottoman Empire was the last great Muslim political entity, emerging in the later M...
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The A to Z of the Ottoman Empire
2010; Vol. 00152
The Ottoman Empire was the last great Muslim political entity, emerging in the later Middle Ages and continuing its existence until the early 20th century and the creation of the modern state of Turkey.The A to Z of the Ottoman Empire is an in-depth treatise covering the political, social, and economic history of the Ottoman Empire, the last member of the lineage of the Near Eastern and Mediterranean empires and the only one that reached the modern times both in terms of internal structure and world history.Key Features:o Historical mapso A detailed chronologyo A list of Ottoman sultans and grand vizierso A dictionary consisting of 781 entrieso An analytical bibliographyo Details where original Turkish documents can be located
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Critical Survey of Long Fiction
Rollyson, Carl E.;Rollyson, Carl E.
Offers profiles of major writers of long fiction throughout history and the world, inc...
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Critical Survey of Long Fiction
2010
Offers profiles of major writers of long fiction throughout history and the world, including analyses of their significant novels and novellas. Discusses the novel in overview essays by time period, country, ethnicity, and genre.
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Authors--Biography--Dictionaries - Fiction--Bio-bibliography--Dictionaries - Fiction--History and criticismContent provider:
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Magill’s Survey of World Literature
Steven G. Kellman;Steven G. Kellman
Offers profiles of major writers outside the United States from all time periods, acco...
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Magill’s Survey of World Literature
2009
Offers profiles of major writers outside the United States from all time periods, accompanied by analysis of their significant titles of fiction, drama, poetry, and nonfiction.
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Literature--Bio-bibliography - Authors--Biography--Dictionaries - Literature--History and criticism - Literature--Stories, plots, etcContent provider:
eBook Community College Collection (EBSCOhost)
Militia et Litterae : Die beiden Niklaus Zrìnyi und Europa
Wilhelm Kühlmann;Gábor Tüskés;Wilhelm Kühlmann;Gábor Tüskés
Mit Nikolaus/Miklos Zrínyi d.Ä. (gest. 1566) und dessen gleichnamigem Urenkel (gest. 1...
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Militia et Litterae : Die beiden Niklaus Zrìnyi und Europa
2009; Vol. 00141
Mit Nikolaus/Miklos Zrínyi d.Ä. (gest. 1566) und dessen gleichnamigem Urenkel (gest. 1664), dem Feldherrn, Politiker, Dichter und gebildeten Weltmann, werden nicht nur große Gestalten der ungarischen Geschichte zum Thema, sondern zugleich Figuren von kaum zu überschätzender europäischer Strahlkraft. Davon zeugen im Kulturraum des alten Reiches bis ins 19. Jahrhundert zahlreiche Berichte, Gedichte, Flugschriften, Predigten, Erzählungen, Romane, auch Dramen wie die Tragödie von Theodor Körner. Der internationale Tagungsband dokumentiert genau den Forschungsstand und rekonstruiert im weiten Umblick Grundlagen, Formen, Stadien und Sichtweisen dieses europäischen Nachruhms, erschließt dabei schwerpunktmäßig bekannte und unbekannte Werke der deutschen Literatur.
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Short Story Writers, Volumes 1-3
Charles E. May;Charles E. May
Includes the most often studied short story writers from around the world. The authors...
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Short Story Writers, Volumes 1-3
2008
Includes the most often studied short story writers from around the world. The authors and works covered reflect the range and diversity of nineteenth and twentieth century short-story writing. More than half the authors covered are from the United States. Also includes writers from England, Ireland, Scotland, Canada, the Continent, Russia, Asia, Africa, and South America.
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Novelists--Biography--Dictionaries - Short stories--Bio-bibliography--Dictionaries - Short story - NovelleContent provider:
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From Babel to Dragomans : Interpreting the Middle East
Bernard Lewis;Bernard Lewis
Bernard Lewis is recognized around the globe as one of the leading authorities on Isla...
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From Babel to Dragomans : Interpreting the Middle East
2004
Bernard Lewis is recognized around the globe as one of the leading authorities on Islam. Hailed as'the world's foremost Islamic scholar'(Wall Street Journal), as'a towering figure among experts on the culture and religion of the Muslim world'(Baltimore Sun), and as'the doyen of Middle Eastern studies'(New York Times), Lewis is nothing less than a national treasure, a trusted voice that politicians, journalists, historians, and the general public have all turned to for insight into the Middle East. Now, this revered authority has brought together writings and lectures that he has written over four decades, featuring his reflections on Middle Eastern history and foreign affairs, the Iranian Revolution, the state of Israel, the writing of history, and much more. The essays cover such urgent and compelling topics as'What Saddam Wrought,''Deconstructing Osama and His Evil Appeal,''The Middle East, Westernized Despite Itself,''The Enemies of God,'and'Can Islam Be Secularized?'The collection ranges from two English originals of articles published before only in foreign languages, to previously unpublished writings, to his highly regarded essays from publications such as Foreign Affairs and The New York Review of Books. With more than fifty pieces in all, plus a new introduction to the book by Lewis, this is a valuable collection for everyone interested in the Middle East. Here then is a rich repository of wisdom on one of the key areas of the modern world--a wealth of profound reflections on Middle Eastern history, culture, politics, and current events.
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Religion and politics--Middle EastContent provider:
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Großes Sängerlexikon
Karl-Josef Kutsch;Leo Riemens;Karl-Josef Kutsch;Leo Riemens
Das Große Sängerlexikon ist das anerkannte Nachschlagewerk über Sängerinnen und Sänger...
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Großes Sängerlexikon
2004
Das Große Sängerlexikon ist das anerkannte Nachschlagewerk über Sängerinnen und Sänger und umfasst in seiner 4. Auflage 18.760 Sänger-Biographien. Bemerkenswert am Großen Sängerlexikon ist nicht nur seine ungeheure Materialfülle, sondern auch, dass es einen sehr weit gespannten Zeitraum und viele Gattungen umfasst: beginnend mit dem Ende des 16. Jahrhunderts, zeichnet es die Entwicklung der bis heute bestimmend gebliebenen Formen der Gesangskunst nach - Oper, Oratorium, Arie, Kantate, Lied, geistliche Vokalmusik - und bewahrt gleichzeitig bis in die Gegenwart größtmögliche Aktualität. Die biographischen Artikel nennen den Künstler- und den bürgerlichen Namen, das Stimmfach und die Lebensdaten. Es folgen Angaben zur Herkunft, zur Karriere nach Wirkungsstätten und den wichtigsten Werken, eine kurze Darstellung der biographisch bedeutsamen Stationen, eine Charakterisierung der Stimme, bei großen Namen Literaturangaben sowie Hinweise auf Tonträgeraufnahmen. Mit den Aktualisierungen, Ergänzungen und Neuaufnahmen wird das Große Sängerlexikon auch in seiner neuesten Ausgabe wieder dem Ruf seiner Vorgänger als Standardwerk für jeden Liebhaber des Gesanges gerecht.
