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Author:

Deathridge, John.

Title:

Wagner beyond good and evil / John Deathridge.

Publisher:

University of California Press,

Copyright Date:

c2008

Description:

xiii, 302 p. : music ; 24 cm.

Subject:

Wagner, Richard,--1813-1883--Criticism and interpretation.
Opera--19th century.

Notes:

"An Ahmanson Foundation book in the humanities"--Jacket flap. Includes bibliographical references (p. 243-282) and index.

Contents:

pt. 1. A few beginnings. -- Wagner lives : issues in autobiography -- "Pale" Senta : female sacrifice and the desire for Heimat -- Wagner the progressive : another look at Lohengrin -- pt. 2. 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 -- pt. 3. The elusiveness of tragedy. -- Don Carlos and Götterdämmerung : two operatic endings and Walter Benjamin's Trauerspiel -- Wagner's Greeks, and Wieland's too -- pt. 4. Tristan und Isolde. -- Dangerous fascinations -- Public and private life : reflections on the genesis of Tristan and Isolde and the Wesendonck Lieder -- Postmortem on Isolde -- pt. 5. 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 -- pt. 6. Operatic futures -- Configurations of the new -- Wagner and beyond.

Series:

An Ahmanson Foundation book in the humanities

ISBN:

0520254538 (alk. paper)
9780520254534 (alk. paper)

OCLC:

(OCoLC)178270262

LCCN:

2008004589

Locations:

USUX851 -- Iowa State University - Parks Library (Ames)

PLAX964 -- Luther College - Preus Library (Decorah)

OSAX771 -- Grand View University Library (Des Moines)

SOAX911 -- Simpson College - Dunn Library (Indianola)

OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)

PHAX277 -- Graceland University - Frederick Madison Smith Library (Lamoni)

OMAX631 -- Geisler Learning Resource Cntr (Pella)