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Author:   Hilda Meldrum Brown (Emeritus Professor of German, Emeritus Professor of German, St Hilda's College, Oxford)
Publisher:   Oxford University Press
Imprint:   Oxford University Press
Dimensions:   Width: 16.20cm , Height: 2.30cm , Length: 24.10cm
Weight:   0.590kg
ISBN:  

9780199325436

ISBN 10:   019932543
Pages:   300
Publication Date:   14 April 2016
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Professional and scholarly ,  Tertiary & Higher Education ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

Introduction: The Nature of the Quest Part I Approaches to the Gesamtkunstwerk before Wagner 1: The Landscape Garden 2: Romantic Drama and the Visual Arts 3: Goethe's Faust: Gesamtkunstwerk or Universaltheater? Part II Wagner and the Gesamtkunstwerk: Moment and Motiv 4: Eighteenth and Nineteenth Century Theoretical Approaches 5: Moment and Motiv: Critical Approaches to the Ring Cycle 6: Analysis of the Erda Scenes Part III Wagner, the Gesamtkunstwerk, and Performance of the Ring 7: Adolphe Appia: A Watershed in the Evolution of the Gesamtkunstwerk 8: Wieland Wagner: The Appia Heritage and the Gesamtkunstwerk 9: The Centenary Ring: Deconstruction and the Gesamtkunstwerk Conclusion Appendix - The genesis of Goethe's Faust

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Brown's engaging study of the Gesamtkunstwerk is a valuable contribution to the topic.The journey matters more than the result of the competition... Brown's hunt for the Gesamtkunstwerk does allow us to rethink this multilayered concept in different ways, as a real interdisciplinary enterprise, and the vast artistic repertoire addressed in this book enriches scholarly explorations on this issue. * Anna Stoll Knecht, Notes, the journal of the Music Library Association * The literature on Wagner is, unsurprisingly, enormous. But Hilda Meldrum Brown's new book will be one that's extremely useful. For not only does it give survey the antecedents to ideas of a Gesamtkunstwerk (a total art-work) before Wagner, but it delineates Wagner's own creative approach and surveys some of the principal ways in which his music-dramas have been interpreted. As such it should be quite useful, a book to which many different people - conductors, stage-directors, singers and future audiences - can refer for both information and stimulus. * Meirion Bowen, Wagner News *

The literature on Wagner is, unsurprisingly, enormous. But Hilda Meldrum Brown's new book will be one that's extremely useful. For not only does it give survey the antecedents to ideas of a Gesamtkunstwerk (a total art-work) before Wagner, but it delineates Wagner's own creative approach and surveys some of the principal ways in which his music-dramas have been interpreted. As such it should be quite useful, a book to which many different people - conductors, stage-directors, singers and future audiences - can refer for both information and stimulus. * Meirion Bowen, Wagner News *

Author Information

Professor Hilda Meldrum Brown, Emeritus Professor of German at the University of Oxford, is internationally known for her work on Heinrich von Kleist. She has published widely on German literary topics from Goethe to Christa Wolf. Her research has for some years had a strong interdisciplinary bias and involves studying connections between literature, drama, music, the visual arts, especially in the field of German Romanticism and Richard Wagner. Her new book on the Gesamtkunstwerk and Richard Wagner combines a number of these areas of research and has been supported by The Leverhulme Trust (Emeritus Research Fellowship) and a Hawthornden Fellowship at The International Retreat for Writers.

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