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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...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Cambridge, UK ; New York, N.Y. :
Cambridge University Press,
©2011.
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| Colección: | Cambridge studies in opera.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
| Sumario: | "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 À la recherche du temps perdu, by way of (among others) Dumas père's Le Comte de Monte-Cristo and Leroux's Le Fantôme 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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| Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (ix, 287 pages) |
| Bibliografía: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 256-282) and index. |
| ISBN: | 9780511992957 0511992955 9780511921216 0511921217 9780511989155 0511989156 1107213037 9781107213036 0511994141 9780511994142 0511987374 9780511987373 1283020769 9781283020763 9786613020765 6613020761 0511991940 9780511991943 0511990944 9780511990946 |
| Acceso: | Single-user access. |