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Paul Heise's The Wound That Will Never Heal is an original allegorical reading of Richard Wagner's epic music drama The Ring of the Nibelung. The product of 50 years of scholarship, Heise challenges the standard view that Wagner merely dramatized the conflict between love and power and demonstrates instead that the composer's greatest work is an allegory exploring humanity's longing for transcendent value and that quest's paradoxical establishment of a science-based secular society. By employing a more extensive analysis of primary evidence than any prior interpretation, The Wound That Will Never Heal is the first interpretation to propose and sustain a global and conceptually coherent account of the entire Ring.

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9781680538137

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A stance more questioning than most --Robert Donington The Wagnerian interpretation to end all interpretations, for the author sees in Wagner's later music-dramas the key to unlock the riddle of human nature. --William Webster One of the most important contributions to Wagnerian scholarship that we have seen --Roger Scruton

""A stance more questioning than most""--Robert Donington ""The Wagnerian interpretation to end all interpretations, for the author sees in Wagner's later music-dramas the key to unlock the riddle of human nature.""--William Webster ""One of the most important contributions to Wagnerian scholarship that we have seen"" --Roger Scruton

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Paul Brian Heise is an internationally recognized author and specialist on Richard Wagner and editor of www.wagnerheim.com. He lives in Stuart, Florida.

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