Songbirds on the Literary Stage: The Woman Singer and her Song in French and German Prose Fiction, from Goethe to Berlioz

Author:   Peter Collier ,  Julia Effertz
Publisher:   Peter Lang AG, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Edition:   New edition
Volume:   38
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Pages:   292
Publication Date:   17 September 2015
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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


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Author:   Peter Collier ,  Julia Effertz
Publisher:   Peter Lang AG, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Imprint:   Peter Lang AG, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Edition:   New edition
Volume:   38
Dimensions:   Width: 15.00cm , Height: 1.50cm , Length: 22.50cm
Weight:   0.430kg
ISBN:  

9783034307345


ISBN 10:   3034307349
Pages:   292
Publication Date:   17 September 2015
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   Out of stock   Availability explained
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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.

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Julia Effertz is a comparative literature scholar and an actress who specializes in women in the literature and culture of the nineteenth century from a comparatist perspective. Her work has appeared in the journals Cahiers Staëliens, Jahrbuch für internationale Germanistik and French Studies as well as in the collected volumes Staël’s Philosophy of the Passions (2013), Musique et littérature: rencontres Sainte-Cécile (2011), Violence in French and Francophone Literature and Film (2008) and Paragraphes: parcours figuratifs et configurations discursives du roman africain (2006).

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