Narrative Interludes
Subtitle: Musical Tableaux in Eighteenth-Century French Texts (University of Toronto Romance Series)
Publisher: University of Toronto Press
Published: March 18, 2006
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 320
ISBN-13: 9780802038425
Subjects: Novels, other prose & writers: 16th to 18th centuries; c 1700 to c 1800; Literary Criticism; Literature - Classics / Criticism; French; European - French; Literary Criticism & Collections / French; 18th century; Aesthetics, French; France; French literature; History; History and criticism; Music in literature
First sentence: Critical analyses of the Querelle des Bouffons tend to lump Denis Diderot somewhat unceremoniously with the proponents of Italian music, based in part upon the side of the opera house on which he chose to sit.