The Melodramatic Moment: Music and Theatrical Culture, 1790-1820 - Couverture rigide

 
9780226543659: The Melodramatic Moment: Music and Theatrical Culture, 1790-1820
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ISBN 10 : 022654365X ISBN 13 : 9780226543659
Editeur : University of Chicago Press, 2018

Synopsis

We seem to see melodrama everywhere we look--from the soliloquies of devastation in a Dickens novel to the abject monstrosity of Frankenstein's creation, and from Louise Brooks's exaggerated acting in Pandora's Box to the vicissitudes endlessly reshaping the life of a brooding Don Draper.

This anthology proposes to address the sometimes bewilderingly broad understandings of melodrama by insisting on the historical specificity of its genesis on the stage in late-eighteenth-century Europe. Melodrama emerged during this time in the metropolitan centers of London, Paris, Vienna, and Berlin through stage adaptations of classical subjects and gothic novels, and they became famous for their use of passionate expression and spectacular scenery. Yet, as contributors to this volume emphasize, early melodramas also placed sound at center stage, through their distinctive--and often disconcerting--alternations between speech and music. This book draws out the melo of melodrama, showing the crucial dimensions of sound and music for a genre that permeates our dramatic, literary, and cinematic sensibilities today.

A richly interdisciplinary anthology, The Melodramatic Moment will open up new dialogues between musicology and literary and theater studies.

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À propos des auteurs

Katherine G. Hambridge is assistant professor in musicology at Durham University.

James K. Chandler is the William B. Ogden Distinguished Service Professor in the Department of English, Department of Cinema and Media Studies, and the College at the University of Chicago.

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Éditeur
University of Chicago Press
Date d'édition
2018
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
022654365X
ISBN 13 
9780226543659
Reliure
Relié
Nombre de pages
288
Éditeur
Hambridge Katherine G, Hicks Jonathan
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Personne responsable
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