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Loading... Opera in the Novel from Balzac to Proustby Cormac Newark
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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 Comédie 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'Opéra. 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. No library descriptions found. |
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Google Books — Loading... GenresMelvil Decimal System (DDC)843.8093578Literature French French fiction Later 19th century 1848–1900LC ClassificationRatingAverage: No ratings.Is this you?Become a LibraryThing Author. |