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Julie A. Buckler - The Literary Lorgnette. Attending Opera in Imperial Russia.  - 9780804732475 - V9780804732475
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The Literary Lorgnette. Attending Opera in Imperial Russia.

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Description for The Literary Lorgnette. Attending Opera in Imperial Russia. Hardback. This book uses a literary lens to examine the diverse practices, lore, and texts of opera-going in imperial Russia. Num Pages: 312 pages, 23 half-tones. BIC Classification: 1DVUA; 2AGR; 3JH; AVGC9; DSA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 24. Weight in Grams: 570.

The "Golden Age" of opera-going in Russia, from the 1840s through the 1880s, coincided with the flourishing of Russian prose realism. During this period, opera and literature exerted a reciprocal influence on one another, each adopting and providing a new context for the other's artistic conventions. Opera permeated the culture of the drawing room so often depicted in literature, and literature simultaneously discovered the opera theater. The relationship between these two artistic genres inspired the use of performative models and conventions in Russian literary art, and led to the interpolation of specific operatic subtexts into literature and life.

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This book treats opera-going in imperial Russia from multiple perspectives, and discusses such canonical works as Tolstoy's Anna Karenina and Goncharov's Oblomov, major operatic works including Tchaikovsky's Eugene Onegin and Verdi's La Traviata, the impact of Western opera in Russia and the Russian-style prima donna. The book engages with poems, sketches, feuilletons, stories, and rarely-discussed Russian novels, as well as non-fictional reminiscences, reviews, and visual images. Throughout, the book is enriched with examples and anecdotes about performers, spectators, and critics, and reception histories of specific operatic works.

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Product Details

Format
Hardback
Publication date
2000
Publisher
Stanford University Press United States
Number of pages
312
Condition
New
Number of Pages
312
Place of Publication
Palo Alto, United States
ISBN
9780804732475
SKU
V9780804732475
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About Julie A. Buckler
Julie A. Buckler is Assistant Professor of Slavic Languages and Literatures at Harvard University.

Reviews for The Literary Lorgnette. Attending Opera in Imperial Russia.
"Buckler's book is the first serious English-language scholarship on Russian opera to be published since the Gorbachev/Yeltsin thaw. . . . The strengths of the book are twofold: revelation of new evidence discovered in archives in St. Petersburg and Moscow and exegesis of the process by which texts circulated between opera and prose literature. . . . Buckler is to ... Read more

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