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Modern Myths and Wagnerian Deconstructions - Hermeneutic Approaches to Wagner's Music-Dramas (Hardcover, New)
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Modern Myths and Wagnerian Deconstructions - Hermeneutic Approaches to Wagner's Music-Dramas (Hardcover, New)
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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 Hollander to Parsifal.
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