Opera in the Novel from Balzac to Proust
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- Publisher:
- Cambridge University Press
- Publication date:
- 03 May 2011
- 31 March 2011
- ISBN:
- 9780511921216
- 9780521118903
- Dimensions:
- (228 x 152 mm)
- Weight & Pages:
- 0.61kg, 298 Pages
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- Subjects:
- Literature, Area Studies, Music, Opera, European Literature, European Studies
- Series:
- Cambridge Studies in Opera
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- Literature, Area Studies, Music, Opera, European Literature, European Studies
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Book description
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.
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‘With an obvious and informed enthusiasm for the subject, Newark balances literary and musicological considerations with quite and persuasive authority … casts revealing light on a significant period in the development of opera.’
Source: Opera
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