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Overtones of Opera in American Literature from Whitman to Wharton /
Overtones of Opera explores the discourse of opera-both the art form and the social institution-in selected works of Whitman, Poe, Alcott, Chopin, Cather, James, and Wharton. For some, opera provided a powerful artistic medium for expressing a private aesthetic experience; in opera, they discovered...
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Baton Rouge :
Louisiana State University Press,
2009.
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| Colección: | Book collections on Project MUSE.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Embodying poetic transcendence: Whitman and opera
- Divided attention: the opera house in Poe and Alcott
- An awakening of the artist: opera in Chopin and Cather
- A standard of taste and form: opera in the cosmopolitan world of James and Wharton.