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Interpreting Wagner (Hardcover, 1st ed)
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Interpreting Wagner (Hardcover, 1st ed)
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What do Wagner's operas really mean? How much room do they leave
for different perspectives? In this fresh and inventive book, James
Treadwell lays open the rich possibilities for interpretation
offered across the full range of Wagner's art. Focussing steadily
on Wagner's music, dramas and prose writings, rather than on
questions of biography or influence, the book carefully traces the
tensions and uncertainties embedded within the composer's central
themes. The result is a new and vivid depiction of the essential
character of Wagner's work. Addressing both general Wagner
enthusiasts and more scholarly students of music, Treadwell
identifies and pursues the habitual concerns of Wagner's operas and
writings: enchantment, seduction, heroism, victory, transcendence
and sacredness. While Wagner's work repeatedly and urgently sets
itself to deny various or ambiguous interpretations, the operas
themselves are nevertheless far more intricate and conflicted than
this denial allows for. In this altered light, the dimensions of
Wagner's art are unexpectedly extended, and its enduring vitality
is refreshingly reasserted. James Treadwell was lecturer and junior
research fellow at the University of Oxford, and assistant
professor of English at McGill University.
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