Alexander Shapiro

The Consolations of History: Themes of Progress and Potential in Richard Wagner's Gotterdammerung (eBook, PDF)

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Produktbeschreibung

Alexander H. Shapiro provides a fresh look at the influences on Wagner's Götterdämmerung, and critically re-evaluates the composer's intellectual worldview as revealed in his own prose works, letters and diary entries. The book challenges conventional views that continue to impede a clear understanding of this work's meaning.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 178
• Erscheinungstermin: 16. Oktober 2019
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781000657081
• Artikelnr.: 57923239

Autorenporträt

Alexander H. Shapiro is a practicing lawyer and independent scholar based in New York, U.S. His published works include "McEwan and Forster: The Perfect Wagnerites" in The Wagner Journal (2011), and "'Drama of an Infinitely Superior Nature': Handel's Early English Oratorios and the Religious Sublime" in Music & Letters (1993).

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgements
Preface
Chapter 1: Siegfried as historical anomaly
Chapter 2: Brünnhilde and the tragedy of jealousy
Chapter 3: Brünnhilde's immolation: dramatizing species consciousness
Chapter 4: Brünnhilde's mercy
Chapter 5: Renunciation on the Rhine?
Chapter 6: Myth versus history
Bibliography
Index