Poetics of Handel's Operas, A Jack C. Estes The translation includes a prologue

The translation includes a prologue for English readers

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The striking extent of religious disagreement suggests that religious conviction is very often the result of processes that do not reliably produce true beliefs

Poetics of Handel's Operas, A Jack C. Estes The translation includes a prologueWhat should we consider when thinking about the relationship between an onstage performance and the story the performance tells? A Poetics of Handel's Operas explores this question by analyzing the narratives of Handel's operas in relation to the rich representational fabric of performance used to convey them. Nathan Link notes that in most storytelling genres, the audience can naturally discern between a story and the way that story is represented: