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Mythology as Metaphor - Romantic Irony, Critical Theory, and Wagner's URing (Hardcover, New)
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Mythology as Metaphor - Romantic Irony, Critical Theory, and Wagner's URing (Hardcover, New)
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This literary and critical approach to Wagner's Ring provides an
original interpretation of the Ring tetralogy and challenges the
standard political analyses of the work. The Ring is examined in
the tradition of the Romantic drama as a reworking of Greek tragedy
as theoretically expressed in the second part of Oper und Drama. In
the Ring, using myth as a metaphor for history presents a
paradoxical world. The innertextual reflection that Wotan performs
in his monologue causes the Ring to self-destruct from within. He
actually dismantles or deconstructs the text of the Ring. The doom
of the gods happens because the Ring has undermined, unworked, and
dismantled its system of signification. Studies of Wagner's
theoretical writings and music-dramas have not emphasized aspects
of his works within the tradition of German drama and aesthetic
theory. This discussion of Wagner's revision of Greek tragedy in
Oper und Drama, supplemented by an original interpretation of the
Ring operas, places Wagner's writings within these realms. As a
fresh interpretation of the Ring tetralogy, this valuable analysis
will appeal to Wagner scholars and musicologists interested in
Wagner's operas as well as to German cultural history and literary
scholars.
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