Opera in the novel from Balzac to Proust
"The turning point of Madame Bovary, which Flaubert memorably set at the opera, is only the most famous example of a surprisingly long tradition, one common to a range of French literary styles and sub-genres. In the first book-length study of that tradition to appear in English, Cormac Newark...
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| Format: | Electronic eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Cambridge [England] ; New York :
Cambridge University Press,
2011.
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| Series: | Cambridge studies in opera.
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| Online Access: | An electronic book accessible through the World Wide Web; click to view |
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| Summary: | "The turning point of Madame Bovary, which Flaubert memorably set at the opera, is only the most famous example of a surprisingly long tradition, one common to a range of French literary styles and sub-genres. In the first book-length study of that tradition to appear in English, Cormac Newark examines representations of operatic performance from Balzac's La Come;die humaine to Proust's �A la recherche du temps perdu, by way of (among others) Dumas p�ere's Le Comte de Monte-Cristo and Leroux's Le Fant�ome de l'Ope;ra. Attentive to textual and musical detail alike in the works, the study also delves deep into their reception contexts. The result is a compelling cultural-historical account: of changing ways of making sense of operatic experience from the 1820s to the 1920s, and of a perennial writerly fascination with the recording of that experience"-- |
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| Physical Description: | ix, 287 p. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliograpical references and index. |