Piecing the Broken Golden Bowl: Dislocation and Diplomacy in Nixon in China by John Adams and Alice Goodman
The purpose of this article is to examine the role of line breaks in the libretto Alice Goodman wrote for Nixon in China (1987), her first collaboration with composer John Adams. In the opera, enjambments function first and foremost as literary devices; as such, they emphasize the text’s autonomy an...
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Association Française d'Etudes Américaines
2021-07-01
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| Series: | Transatlantica |
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| Online Access: | https://journals.openedition.org/transatlantica/17139 |
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