Modern Myths and Wagnerian Deconstructions: Hermeneutic Approaches to Wagner's Music-DramasConsisting of six studies that present hermeneutical analyses of Wagnerian dramas, this book discusses Wagner's mature single dramas from Hollander to Parsifal with reference to the concept of Romantic irony and the basic theoretical orientation of post-structuralism. Wagner is best known as a composer of mythological works, but these music-dramas contain basic problems that essentially contradict what is regarded as their mythological or legendary nature. They all self-referentially play out certain critical processes. Focusing on the very issue of interpretation, this work asks how Wagner's dramas use their legendary or mythological raw material in a specifically 19th-century Romantic way to create meaning. It is argued that by means of Romantic irony, internal self-reflection or self-consciousness, each work deconstructs its own mythological or legendary nature. |
Contents
Der Fliegende Holländer or The Crisis of Romantic | 25 |
Tannhäuser at the Song Contest? MythicalHistorical | 55 |
Elsas Dream Ortruds Magic the Forbidden Question | 83 |
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Modern Myths and Wagnerian Deconstructions: Hermeneutic Approaches to Wagner ... Mary A. Cicora No preview available - 2000 |