Georges Bizet, Carmen / Susan McClary.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

McClary, Susan, author.

Series:

Cambridge opera handbooks.

Cambridge opera handbooks

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Bizet, Georges, 1838-1875. Carmen.

Bizet, Georges.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xi, 163 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).

Edition:

1st ed.

Other Title:

Carmen.

Place of Publication:

Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 1992.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Bizet's Carmen is probably the best known opera of the standard repertoire, yet its very familiarity often prevents us from approaching it with the seriousness it deserves. This handbook explores the opera in a number of contexts, bringing to the surface the controversies over gender, race, class and musical propriety that greeted its premiere and that have been rekindled by the recent spate of film versions. Beginning with a study of the Mérimée story by Peter Robinson and an examination of the social tensions in nineteenth-century France that inform both that story and the opera, the book traces the latter through its genesis and reception. The central core of the book presents a close reading of the opera that offers new interpretive possibilities. The handbook concludes with discussions of four films based on the opera: Carmen Jones and the versions of Carmen by Carlos Saura, Peter Brook, and Francesco Rosi. The volume contains a bibliography, music examples, and a synopsis.

Contents:

Cover

Frontmatter

Contents

Glossary of terms

Overview

1.1 Sociolinguistics

1.2 France and the French

Regionalism

2.1 Overview

2.2 Dialects of the North

2.3 Regional French

2.4 Dialectology and sociolinguistics

2.5 Sociolinguistics and regional variation

Occitan

3.1 Occitan: history

3.2 Occitan: politics

3.3 Occitan: language and the sociolinguistic situation

Regional languages

4.1 Alsatian

4.2 Basque

4.3 Breton

4.4 Catalan

4.5 Corsican

4.6 Flemish

French abroad

5.1 Historical situation

5.2 Countries, regions and territories

5.3 Canada

5.4 Attitudes and policies in France

5.5 Attitudes and policies abroad

5.6 French in international organisations

Social variation: age and sex

6.1 Age

6.2 Sex

Social categories

7.1 Models of society

7.2 Social class in France

7.3 Upper- and lower-class usage

7.4 Interpretations of social-category differences

The outsider

8.1 Jews

8.2 Gypsies

8.3 Armenians

8.4 Other immigrants

8.5 Social outcasts

Social variation: occupations

9.1 Professional discourse

9.2 Legal language

9.3 Science and technology

9.4 Commerce and management

Interaction

10.1 Approaches and methods

10.2 The communication situation

10.3 Monologue and group interaction

10.4 The structure of dyadic interaction

10.5 Formality levels

10.6 Written and spoken differences

10.7 Registers

Language policy

11.1 Historical overview

11.2 French opinions and attitudes

11.3 The norm

11.4 Contemporary language legislation

11.5 Contemporary official language policy

11.6 Language control and support mechanisms

Index

Bibliography.

Notes:

Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015).

Includes bibliographical references (p. 147-159) and index.

ISBN:

9781139085533

1139085530

9781139166416

1139166417

OCLC:

935276594

Publisher Number:

2027/heb07560 hdl