Wagnerism: art and politics in the shadow of music

Prelude : Death in Venice -- Rheingold : Wagner, Nietzsche, and the Ring -- Tristan Chord : Baudelaire and the Symbolists -- Swan Knight : Victorian Britain and Gilded Age America -- Grail Temple : Esoteric, Decadent, and Satanic Wagner -- Holy German Art : The Kaiserreich and Fin-de-Siècle Vienna -...

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1. Verfasser: Ross, Alex 1968- (VerfasserIn)
Format: Buch
Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: New York Farrar, Straus and Giroux 2020
Ausgabe:First edition
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Zusammenfassung:Prelude : Death in Venice -- Rheingold : Wagner, Nietzsche, and the Ring -- Tristan Chord : Baudelaire and the Symbolists -- Swan Knight : Victorian Britain and Gilded Age America -- Grail Temple : Esoteric, Decadent, and Satanic Wagner -- Holy German Art : The Kaiserreich and Fin-de-Siècle Vienna -- Nibelheim : Jewish and Black Wagner -- Venusberg : Feminist and Gay Wagner -- Brünnhilde's Rock : Willa Cather and the Singer-Novel -- Magic Fire : Modernism, 1900 to 1914 -- Nothung : The First World War and Hitler's Youth -- Ring of Power : Revolution and Russia -- Flying Dutchman : Ulysses, The Waste Land, The Waves -- Siegfried's Death : Nazi Germany and Thomas Mann -- Ride of the Valkyries : Film from The Birth of a Nation to Apocalypse Now -- The Wound : Wagnerism After 1945
"A large-canvas narrative history, charting the impact of the cultural titan Wagner on art and politics. Ross will show how various artists-composers, novelists, poets, filmmakers-wrestled with the legacy of Wagner in the twentieth century"--
Beschreibung:Includes bibliographical references and index
Rezensiert in: Wagnerspectrum, 18. Jahrgang (2022), Heft 1, Seite 293-296 (Nicholas Vazsonyi)
Beschreibung:X, 769 Seiten, 8 ungezählte Seiten Bildtafeln Illustrationen
ISBN:9780374285937