Modern myths and Wagnerian deconstructions : hermeneutic approches to Wagner's music-dramas

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Modern myths and Wagnerian deconstructions : hermeneutic approches to Wagner's music-dramas

Mary A. Cicora

(Contributions to the study of music and dance, no. 57)

Greenwood Press, 2000

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Includes bibliographical references (p. [211]-216) and index

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内容説明

Consisting 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. Musicologists with an interest in Wagner's works, and literary scholars who are interested in interdisciplinary applications of literary-critical theory, will appreciate this unique application of literary, theoretical, and critical concepts to the understanding of his music-dramas. This work will also appeal to scholars of German literature and of German cultural history. It discusses Wagner's single dramas from Holl^Dander to Parsifal.

目次

Modern Myths and Wagnerian Deconstructions: Hermeneutic Approaches to Wagner's Music-Dramas by Mary A. Cicora Preface Introduction: Romantic Irony, Secondhand Mythology, and Operatic Deconstruction Der Fliegende Hollander, or, The Crisis of Romantic Intertextuality Tannhauser at the Song Contest? Mythical-Historical Synthesis as Musical-Dramatic Catastrophe at the Wartburg Elsa's Dream, Ortrud's Magic, the Forbidden Question, and Aesthetic Self-Reflection in Lohengrin "The potion, I brewed it myself!" Love, Death, and Deconstruction in Tristan und Isolde Die Meistersinger von Nurnberg: The Song Contest Revisited, or, Hermeneutics Set to Music Parsifal: Metaphor Redeemed Conclusions: Wagner and Derrida Selected Bibliography Index

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