Overview
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.
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Author: Mary A. Cicora
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
Imprint: Praeger Publishers Inc
Volume: No. 57
Dimensions:
Width: 15.60cm
, Height: 1.40cm
, Length: 23.40cm
Weight: 0.498kg
ISBN: 9780313305399
ISBN 10: 0313305390
Pages: 232
Publication Date: 30 January 2000
Recommended Age: From 7 to 17 years
Audience:
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Undergraduate
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Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active
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Table of Contents
"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"
Reviews
Cicora's German translations are brilliant. -Choice ?Cicora's German translations are brilliant.??Choice ?Cicora's German translations are brilliant.?-Choice In Modern Myths and Wagnerian Deconstructions, Mary Cicora extends to Wagner's non-Ring operas the incisive critical method with which she has already so suggestively illuminated the tetralogy in Mythology as Metaphor. She ingeniously reveals Wagner's self reflective dramatic procedures. -Paul Robinson Richard W. Lyman Professor in the Humanities, Stanford University
In Modern Myths and Wagnerian Deconstructions, Mary Cicora extends to Wagner's non-Ring operas the incisive critical method with which she has already so suggestively illuminated the tetralogy in Mythology as Metaphor. She ingeniously reveals Wagner's self reflective dramatic procedures. -Paul Robinson Richard W. Lyman Professor in the Humanities, Stanford University
"""In Modern Myths and Wagnerian Deconstructions, Mary Cicora extends to Wagner's non-Ring operas the incisive critical method with which she has already so suggestively illuminated the tetralogy in Mythology as Metaphor. She ingeniously reveals Wagner's self reflective dramatic procedures.""-Paul Robinson Richard W. Lyman Professor in the Humanities, Stanford University ?Cicora's German translations are brilliant.?-Choice ?Cicora's German translations are brilliant.??Choice ""Cicora's German translations are brilliant.""-Choice"
Author Information
MARY A. CICORA is the author of Wagner's Ring and German Drama: Comparative Studies in Mythology and History in Drama (Greenwood, 1999) and Mythology as Metaphor: Romantic Irony, Critical Theory, and Wagner's Ring (Greenwood, 1998).
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