Background
James Melville McGlathery was born on November 22, 1936, in New Orleans to Samuel Lyon and Mary Jackson (Garrott) McGlathery.
James graduated from Princeton University with Bachelor's degree in 1958;
James graduated from Yale University with Master's degree in 1959 and Ph.D. in 1964.
(Wagner audiences are especially challenged to fathom the ...)
Wagner audiences are especially challenged to fathom the meaning of his operas, for there is much mystery as to just what they depict. This study attempts to meet that challenge for the ten operas - from The Flying Dutchman to Parsifal - that Wagner considered to embody his particular poetic genius and which indeed continue to be regularly performed. The texts of the ten works are examined with special attention to the role of erotic passion, a subject usually relegated to secondary importance in Wagner criticism.
https://www.amazon.com/Wagners-Operas-Desire-James-McGlathery/dp/0820436933/?tag=2022091-20
(The relationship between music and literature is emerging...)
The relationship between music and literature is emerging as one of the prominently discussed subjects among literary scholars and musicologists. This volume brings together the scholarly fields of musicology and German literature. Among the areas of research discussed are the study of opera libretti, the history of poetry set to music, metaphorical references to music, and writers' contributions to the formulation of our view of music in the modern period. The present volume is especially valuable as a contribution to our understanding of the relationship of German music and culture because German composers have tended to select products of their own linguistic culture to set to music. And in German literature, more than in any other, music has represented a poetic theme of major significance in the works of many of its best writers.
https://www.amazon.com/Music-German-Literature-Relationship-Linguistics/dp/1879751038/?tag=2022091-20
(This study aims to show that Hoffmann drew on his own psy...)
This study aims to show that Hoffmann drew on his own psychic experiences relevant to sexuality, and that he also was writing in a broad literary tradition of roguish sexual humor and ironic portrayal of the psychology of desire that had survived to his time in «opera buffa» and comic theater generally, as well as in certain vestiges of the eighteenth-century «conte licencieux». (In a second volume, «Part Two: Interpretations of the Tales», this perspective will be used to provide new readings of each of Hoffmann's four-dozen tales and of his two novels.)
https://www.amazon.com/Mysticism-Sexuality-T-Hoffmann-University/dp/3261049278/?tag=2022091-20
(Professor McGlathery's study is the first to survey schol...)
Professor McGlathery's study is the first to survey scholarly criticism of Grimms' Fairy Tales from its publication to the present. It reveals the changing perception of fairy tales, from the initial assumption that they were descended from ancient sources, and the consequent interest in the genre's origin and evidence for ancient ritualistic practice, to the study of the fairy tale as a literary genre, distinct from other types of popular narrative; ideological critics are seen to pursue the meaning of the tales, and folklorists to examine cultural sources and story-telling as performance art.
https://www.amazon.com/Grimms-Fairy-Tales-Literature-Linguistics/dp/1879751909/?tag=2022091-20
James Melville McGlathery was born on November 22, 1936, in New Orleans to Samuel Lyon and Mary Jackson (Garrott) McGlathery.
James graduated from Princeton University with Bachelor's degree in 1958; from Yale University with Master's degree in 1959 and Ph.D. in 1964.
James was a German teacher at a private boys' school in Andover. He then worked at Harvard University. He began as lecturer, then became instructor in German. He later was an assistant professor at University of Illinois at Urbana. He was there a department head from 1985 to 1995. He worked a managing editor at Journal of English and Germanic Philology.
(This study aims to show that Hoffmann drew on his own psy...)
(The relationship between music and literature is emerging...)
(Wagner audiences are especially challenged to fathom the ...)
(Professor McGlathery's study is the first to survey schol...)
James has democratic views.
James likes cooking.
James married Nancy Judith Beyer on June 16, 1963. They have four children: Samuel, Daniel, Benjamin, Andrew.