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Record Nr.

UNINA9910136998703321

Autore

Diderot Denis

Titolo

Rameau's nephew : Le Neveu de Rameu / / Denis Diderot ; edited by Marian Hobson ; translated by Kate E. Tunstall and Caroline Warman

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Open Book Publishers, 2016

Cambridge : , : Open Book Publishers, , 2016

ISBN

1-909254-93-2

2-8218-8173-8

1-909254-92-4

Edizione

[Multi-media bilingual edition.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (264 pages) : illustrations

Collana

Open book classics

Disciplina

848.5

Soggetti

Nephews

Satire, French

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references.

Nota di contenuto

List of Musical Pieces -- Preface to the Second Edition / by Marian Hobson -- Rameau's nephew / translated by Kate E. Tunstall, Caroline Warman -- Le Neveu de Rameau : French edition / ed. by Georges Monval (Paris: Plon, 1891) -- Notes by Marian Hobson -- List of Illustrations -- Contributors -- Acknowledgments.

Sommario/riassunto

Denis Diderot's Rameau's Nephew has achieved a literary-philosophical status that no other work by Diderot shares. This interactive, multi-media edition offers not only a brand new translation of Diderot's famous dialogue but provides portraits and biographies of the numerous individuals mentioned in the text, allowing a window onto the complex social and political context that forms the backdrop to the dialogue. Links to musical pieces selected by Pascal Duc and performed by students of the Conservatoire nationale de musique, Paris, illuminate the wider musical context of the work, enlarging