Reading Critics Reading Opera and Ballet Criticism in France from the Revolution to 1848
, by Parker, Roger; Smart, Mary AnnNote: Supplemental materials are not guaranteed with Rental or Used book purchases.
- ISBN: 9780198166979 | 0198166974
- Cover: Hardcover
- Copyright: 8/16/2001
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 treatthe 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.