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- Title
Exoriare Aliquis.
- Authors
O'Quinn, Daniel
- Abstract
Across the larger arc of his argument, Roach has been building an affective assemblage that moves from Dido's lament in Purcell's opera to her silent indictment of Aeneas in the underworld in Dryden's translation. [21] That metaphorical connection between Dido's silence in Book VI of the I Aeneid i , which for Roach allows for Aeneas's opportunistic forgetting of her revenant gaze, and the material spaces of the circum-Atlantic world where the dead are exiled from the living merits close attention. In spite of the fact that Dido's silence is one of the most plangent critiques of imperial disregard and ambition in the classical canon, Roach's attention gravitates to Aeneas's ready forgetting of the encounter: "Aeneas seems to find this silence troubling but convenient; he is quickly on his way again, while Dido, like the repressed, reenters the Stygian realms from which she staged her silent and brief return."[20] Aeneas's capacity to forget is crucial to his imperial mission and to Roach's own discussion of the isolated cemeteries of New Orleans, the "Cities of the Dead" from which the book derives its title. 3 Roach, I Cities of the Dead i , 45. 4 Roach, I Cities of the Dead i , 45. 5 Roach, I Cities of the Dead i , 47. 6 Joseph Roach, I It i (Ann Arbor: Univ. of Michigan Press, 2007).
- Subjects
OPERA; RECOLLECTION (Psychology); DRAMATIC music; GHOST stories; MUSICAL interpretation; CITIES &; towns; MUSICAL style; AFRICANS
- Publication
Eighteenth-Century Studies, 2023, Vol 57, Issue 1, p33
- ISSN
0013-2586
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1353/ecs.2023.a909451