Opera in the Novel Balzac to Proust |
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Author:
| Newark, Cormac |
Series title: | Cambridge Studies in Opera Ser. |
ISBN: | 978-0-511-99414-2 |
Publisher: | Cambridge University Press
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Book Format: | Ebook |
List Price: | USD $72.00 |
Book Description:
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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 Com die humaine to Proust's À la recherche du temps perdu, by way of (among others) Dumas p re's Le Comte de Monte-Cristo and...
More DescriptionThe 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 Com die humaine to Proust's À la recherche du temps perdu, by way of (among others) Dumas p re's Le Comte de Monte-Cristo and Leroux's Le Fantôme de l'Op 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.