A leitmotif or Leitmotiv (/ˌlaɪtmoʊˈtiːf/) is a "short, recurring musical phrase" associated with a particular person, place, or idea. It is closely related...

impact. Characters then become themes in themselves, almost a Wagnerian leitmotiv, whose attitudes are repeated at each of their appearances as a musical...

successful lifestyle. Tim Goodman considers identity to be the show's leitmotiv, calling Don Draper "a man who's been living a lie for a long time. He's...

(1972). Who is Brecht? Willett (1964) 281. Brown, Hilda Meldrum (1991). Leitmotiv and Drama. Oxford: Clarendon Press. "Richard Wagner's Concept of the 'Gesamtkunstwerk'"...

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higher status by individuals than is warranted.[citation needed] The leitmotiv of proper gentlemanly conduct is explored in the often stormy friendship...

fliegende Holländer, in which for the first time he used the device of the leitmotiv, a characteristic that became a feature of all his later works. After...

hoping it would save them from the future'. Throughout the jubilee, the leitmotiv as it were was the cult of seventeenth century Muscovy, with its patrimonialism...

known for their distinctive style of imitating European cinema and their leitmotiv inspired by Giuseppe Verdi's La forza del destino. The campaigns began...

card game "rouge et noir", with the card game being the narratological leitmotiv of a novel in which chance and luck determine the fate of the main character...