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Songbirds on the literary stage : the woman singer and her song in French and German prose fiction, from Goethe to Berlioz
- Title
- Songbirds on the literary stage : the woman singer and her song in French and German prose fiction, from Goethe to Berlioz / Julia Effertz.
- Author
- Effertz, Julia, 1978-
- Publication
- Oxford ; New York : Peter Lang, [2015]
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| Status | Format | Access | Call Number | Item Location |
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| Text | Use in library | PQ637.W64 E36 2015 | Off-site |
Details
- Description
- x, 285 pages; 23 cm.
- Summary
- This interdisciplinary study, situated at the cross-section of music, literature and gender, examines the woman singer and her song as a literary motif in French and German prose fiction from the 1790s to the mid-nineteenth century. Through selected case studies, this diachronic history of motifs offers a fresh perspective on canonical singer archetypes, such as Goethe{u2019}s child singer Mignon and Madame de Staël{u2019}s ground-breaking artist Corinne. The volume also examines lesser known narratives by authors including Caroline Auguste Fischer, E.T.A. Hoffmann, Hector Berlioz and Marceline Desbordes-Valmore, some of which have not been considered critically in this regard before. This allows for a re-evaluation of the significance of the singer motif in musical narratives from the Romantic era to the July Monarchy. The sometimes polemic, often ambivalent, yet always nuanced and multi-layered reflection on the woman singer in literature bears testimony to the complexity of the nineteenth-century musical-literary discourse and its fluid negotiation of gender relations and female performance, fitting well with that ineffable, enigmatic essence of the woman singer herself who, as a literary motif and a cultural icon, continues to resonate and fascinate well beyond the nineteenth century.
- Series Statement
- European connections ; volume 38
- Uniform Title
- European connections ; v. 38.
- Subject
- Genre/Form
- Criticism, interpretation, etc.
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Contents
- Into the Sublime Unknown: Writing Female Song in the 1800s -- Archetype or Cliché? Goethe and the Child Singer Mignon in Wilhelm Meisters Lehrjahre -- The Plight of the First Woman: Madame de Staël and the Female Performer in Corinne, ou l'Italie -- Beyond the Canon: Singing Strategies in the Works of Caroline Auguste Fischer -- Between Entgrenzung and Realism: The Romantic Twilight of E.T.A. Hoffmann and George Sand -- Realistic Divas: The Singer in the Works of Balzac and Sophie Ulliac-Trémadeure -- Finding a Female Narrative: Madame de Thélusson, Madame de Taunay and Marceline Desbordes-Valmore -- Hoffmannesque Dénouements: The Nightmare of the Romantic Singer in Hector Berlioz's Euphonia, ou la ville musicale.
- ISBN
- 9783034307345
- 3034307349
- LCCN
- 2015016709
- OCLC
- ocn909883476
- 909883476
- SCSB-1833326
- Owning Institutions
- Princeton University Library