Mercy and its Transformations
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https://doi.org/10.4312/mz.45.2.7-16Keywords:
answer of the Real, death drive, faliure of sublimation, irony, Jacques Lacan, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, La clemenza di Tito, perverse actAbstract
Far from radiating the dignity of the severe but merciful rulers of Mozart’s early operas, Tito’s acts display features of hysterical self-staging. The falsity of his position is rendered by the music itself, which, in a supreme display of Mozartean irony, undermines the opera’s explicit ideological project.Downloads
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1. 12. 2009
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Copyright (c) 2009 Slavoj Žižek
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Žižek, S. (2009). Mercy and its Transformations. Musicological Annual, 45(2), 7-16. https://doi.org/10.4312/mz.45.2.7-16