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Author: Dieter Borchmeyer (Professor of German and Theatre Studies, Professor of German and Theatre Studies, University of Heidelberg) ,
Stewart Spencer ,
Stewart Spencer
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Imprint: Clarendon Press
Dimensions:
Width: 16.30cm
, Height: 3.30cm
, Length: 24.50cm
Weight: 0.878kg
ISBN: 9780193153226
ISBN 10: 019315322
Pages: 444
Publication Date: 03 October 1991
Audience:
Professional and scholarly
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Professional & Vocational
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active
Availability: To order
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Reviews
Unparalleled in the literature and is obligatory reading for anyone wishing to come to grips with the literary, philosophical and socio-political background to the composer's works....One could read this book several times without exhausting its riches....The pleasure is enhanced by the elegant and marvellously lucid translation. --Musical Times<br> There can be little doubt...that this erudite and passionate explication of Wagner's 'theory and theatre' will turn out to be a landmark in Wagner studies. --The Germanic Review<br> The most ambitious attempt in recent years to revive interest in Wagner's ideas. --Times Literary Supplement<br> Borchmeyer does a fine job of illuminating a vast array of thematic parallels, allusions, and transformations between classical, Biblical, medievil, Romantic, and occasionally modern sources and Wagner's dramatic texts....[Borchmeyer] demonstrates an impressive command of Wagner's legacy as a writer and thinker. --Notes<br>
<br> Unparalleled in the literature and is obligatory reading for anyone wishing to come to grips with the literary, philosophical and socio-political background to the composer's works....One could read this book several times without exhausting its riches....The pleasure is enhanced by the elegant and marvellously lucid translation. --Musical Times<p><br> There can be little doubt...that this erudite and passionate explication of Wagner's 'theory and theatre' will turn out to be a landmark in Wagner studies. --The Germanic Review<p><br> The most ambitious attempt in recent years to revive interest in Wagner's ideas. --Times Literary Supplement<p><br> Borchmeyer does a fine job of illuminating a vast array of thematic parallels, allusions, and transformations between classical, Biblical, medievil, Romantic, and occasionally modern sources and Wagner's dramatic texts....[Borchmeyer] demonstrates an impressive command of Wagner's legacy as a writer and thinker. --Notes<p><br>
Author Information
Spencer is editor of the journal of the English Wagner Society and co-author with B. Millington of Selected Letters of Richard Wagner
