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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| 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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Table of Contents:
- Machine generated contents note: Introduction; 1. Balzac, Meyerbeer and science; 2. 'Tout entier?': scenes from grand ope;ra in Dumas and Balzac; 3. The novel in opera: residues of reading in Flaubert; 4. Knowing what happens next: opera in Verne; 5. 'Vous qui faites l'endormie': the Phantom and the buried voices of the Paris Ope;ra; 6. Proust and the soire;e ... l'Ope;ra chez soi; Envoi; Bibliography.