Borrowed Forms

Other Arts and Adaptations

“…She aligns the opera with the novel's emphasis on nonverbal signification, gesture, and animals, as opera's 'otherness' to novelistic discourse opens 'a space of opacity and unreadability in the narrative'. 7 The emphasis on nonverbal signification takes more and less explicitly aestheticized forms in Disgrace, among them its preoccupation with performance. If Byron in Italy is the other art form of the novel's second part, Melanie Isaacs's performance in Sunset at the Globe Salon dominates its first.…”