Looking through the Opera Glasses: Performance and Artifice in "The Age of Innocence."
Serving as a structural frame for Edith Wharton's novel "The Age of Innocence," opera illustrates the duality of the artifice of performance: the one on the stage and the one in the opera box. The artifice of opera allows its participants to express their imagination and passion; however, the artifi...
| Publicado en: | Mosaic: An Interdisciplinary Critical Journal Vol. 37; no. 1; pp. 49 - 62 |
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