Wagner beyond good and evil

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Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Deathridge John
Published: University of California Press,
Publisher Address: Berkeley
Publication Dates: c2008.
Literature type: Book
Language: English
Series: An Ahmanson foundation book in the humanities
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Carrier Form: xiii, 302 p.: music ; 24 cm.
ISBN: 9780520254534 (alk. paper)
0520254538 (alk. paper)
Index Number: J653
CLC: J653.2(516)
J605.516
Call Number: J605.516/D285
Contents: "An Ahmanson Foundation book in the humanities"--Jacket flap.
Includes bibliographical references (p. 243-282) and index.
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 Gr