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Author Deathridge, John.

Title Wagner beyond good and evil / John Deathridge.

Publication Info. Berkeley : University of California Press, [2008]
©2008

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 Talbott: Circulating Collection  ML410.W125 D4 W3 2008    Available  ---
Description xiii, 302 pages : music, portrait ; 24 cm
Note "An Ahmanson Foundation book in the humanities"--Jacket flap.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 243-282) and index.
Contents A few beginnings. Wagner lives : issues in autobiography ; "Pale" Senta : female sacrifice and the desire for Heimat ; Wagner the progressive : another look at Lohengrin -- Der Ring des Nibelungen. Fairy tale, revolution, prophecy : preliminary evening: Das Rheingold ; Symphonic mastery or moral anarchy? : first day: Die Walküre ; Siegfried hero : second day: Siegfried ; Finishing the end : third day: Götterdämmerung -- The elusiveness of tragedy. Don Carlos and Götterdämmerung : two operatic endings and Walter Benjamin's Trauerspiel ; Wagner's Greeks, and Wieland's too -- Tristan und Isolde. Dangerous fascinations ; Public and private life : reflections on the genesis of Tristan and Isolde and the Wesendock Lieder ; Postmortem on Isolde -- Mature polemics. Strange love, or, how we learned to stop worrying and love Parsifal ; Mendelssohn and the strange case of the (lost) Symphony in C ; Unfinished symphonies -- Operatic futures. Configurations of the new ; Wagner and beyond.
Subject Wagner, Richard, 1813-1883 -- Criticism and interpretation.
Wagner, Richard, 1813-1883.
Criticism and interpretation.
Opera -- 19th century.
Opera.
Chronological Term 19th century
ISBN 9780520254534 alkaline paper
0520254538 alkaline paper