Isbn: 9780521118903 - opera in the novel from balzac to proust (cambridge studies in opera) (5 Ergebnisse)

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Zustand: New. Newark studies the development of a key device in French fiction of the nineteenth century: the soiree . l'Opera. Series: Cambridge Studies in Opera. Num Pages: 298 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: AVGC9; DSA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 237 x 164 x 19. Weight in Grams: 626. . 2011. hardcover. . . . . Books ship from the US and Ireland. …

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Buch. Zustand: Neu. Druck auf Anfrage Neuware - Printed after ordering - 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.…