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" Opera in the novel from Balzac to Proust / "
Cormac Newark.
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BL
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105108
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b62654
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GBB0B3690
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| Main Entry
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Newark, Cormac,1972-
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Opera in the novel from Balzac to Proust /\ Cormac Newark.
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| Publication Statement
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Cambridge ;New York :: Cambridge University Press,, 2011.
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| Series Statement
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Cambridge studies in opera
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ix, 287 p. ;; 24 cm.
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9780521118903 (hardback)
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: 0521118905 (hardback)
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
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| Contents
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Machine generated contents note: Introduction; 1. Balzac, Meyerbeer and science; 2. 'Tout entier?': scenes from grand ope;ra in Dumas and Balzac; 3. The novel in opera: residues of reading in Flaubert; 4. Knowing what happens next: opera in Verne; 5. 'Vous qui faites l'endormie': the Phantom and the buried voices of the Paris Ope;ra; 6. Proust and the soire;e ... l'Ope;ra chez soi; Envoi; Bibliography.
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| Abstract
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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 Come;die humaine to Proust's ° la recherche du temps perdu, by way of (among others) Dumas pr̈e's Le Comte de Monte-Cristo and Leroux's Le Fantm̥e 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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French fiction-- 19th century-- History and criticism.
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French fiction-- 20th century-- History and criticism.
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Opera in literature.
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| Dewey Classification
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843/.8093578
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PQ653.N45 2011
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