Narrative interludes
Subtitle: musical tableaux in eighteenth-century French texts
By: Tili Boon Cuillé
Publisher: University of Toronto Press
Published: 2006
Place of publication: Toronto
Language: eng
Number of pages: 284
Subjects: Music in literature; Art and literature -- France -- History -- 19th century; Aesthetics, French -- 18th century; French literature -- 18th century -- History and criticism; Opera -- France -- History and criticism
Description: "In a study spanning the latter half of the eighteenth century, Cuille brings the cultural discourse on music and musicians to bear on the works of Diderot, Cazotte, Beaumarchais, Charriere, Cottin, Krudener, and Stael. She turns attention from the representation of music to its moral repercussions, from aesthetic innovation to social resistance, and from national to gender politics. Juxtaposing pre-eminent and popular writers, Cuille reads their fictional works in light of their treatises on art and society, exploring the significance of musical tableaux that have previously fallen outside the scope of literary analysis but that revolutionized the form and function of music in the text."--Jacket.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index