Reading Critics Reading

Opera and Ballet Criticism in France from the Revolution to 1848
Erscheinungsjahr 2001
ISBN: 978-0-19-816697-9
Verlag: Oxford University Press

Buch, Englisch, 282 Seiten, Print PDF, Format (B × H): 163 mm x 242 mm, Gewicht: 552 g

This book is among the first to examine French opera and ballet criticism during the first half of the nineteenth century both as a historical and a literary phenomenon. It thus provides a new and badly needed perspective for scholars and other commentators who have often been willing to treat the journalistic responses to such musical genres chiefly as a simple source of factual information. The essays, taken from a conference in Oxford in 1996, explore the kinds of problem encountered and the types of methodology that might be employed in trying to interpret these critical responses; they throw light on such aspects as the cultural attitudes underlying the writers' rhetoric, the aesthetic stances and ideological agendas at play, and how modes of production influenced content.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Parker, Roger

Smart, Mary Ann

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Theater- und Filmwissenschaft | Andere Darstellende Künste Tanz Ballett, Modern Dance
• Geisteswissenschaften Musikwissenschaft Musikgattungen Opernmusik

Inhaltsverzeichnis

- Contributors

- Acknowledgements

- Introduction

- I: Reading Critics

- A Dilettante at the Opera: Issues in the Criticism of Julien-Louis Geoffroy, 1800-1814

- The Professional Dilletante: Ludovic Vitet and Le Globe

- Gluck, Berlioz, and Castil-Blaze: The Poetics and Reception of French Opera

- II: Reading Grand Opéra

- Robert le Diable and Louis-Philippe the King

- Ceremony, Celebration, and Spectacle in La Juive

- Mourning the Duc d'Orléans: Donizetti's Dom Sébastien and the Political Meanings of Grand Opéra

- III: Reading Ballet

- Bodies at the Opéra: Art and the Hermaphrodite in the Dance Criticism of Théophile Gautier

- Bibliography

- Index