Includes bibliographical references (pages 259-271) and index.
Contents:
Introduction / Margaret Eleanor Menninger. Acknowledgements -- Introduction / Margaret Eleanor Menninger. Part I. Richard Wagner, Parsifal, and the pursuit of Gesamtkunstwerk / The play's the thing : Schiller, Wagner, and Gesamtkunstwerk / Anthony J. Steinhoff. From Gesamtkunstwerk to music drama / Sanna Pederson -- Richard Wagner, Parsifal, and the pursuit of Gesamtkunstwerk / Anthony J. Steinhoff. Part II. Reconciling the "Three graceful Hellenic sisters" : Wagner, dance, and song-ballets set to Ricahrd Strauss's Vier letzte Lieder / Epic Gesamtkunstwerk / Wayne Heisler, Jr. Gesamtkunstwerk, Gestaltung, and the Bauhaus stage / Melissa Trimingham -- Exposing the political Gesamtkunstwerk : Hanns Eisler's Nuit et brouillard / Amy Lynn Wlodarski -- Reconciling the "Three graceful Hellenic sisters" : Wagner, dance, and song-ballets set to Ricahrd Strauss's Vier letzte Lieder / Wayne Heisler, Jr. Part III. Afterword : Gesamtkunstwerk as epistemic space / The "translucent (not: transparent)" Gesamtglaswerk / Kevin S. Amidon. Quiet audience, roaring crowd : the aesthetics of sound and the traces of Bayreuth in Kuhel Wampe and Triumph of the will / Theodore F. Rippey -- The will to heal : Gesamtkunstwerk and memorial music since 1945 / Julia Goodwin and Marget Eleanor Menninger -- Consuming voices : musical film and the Gesamtkunstwerk of mass culture / David Imhoof -- Afterword : Gesamtkunstwerk as epistemic space / Kevin S. Amidon.
Series:
Spektrum : publications of the German Studies Association ; volume 12
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