Tristan's shadow : sexuality and the total work of art after Wagner /

Daub, Adrian.

Tristan's shadow : sexuality and the total work of art after Wagner / Adrian Daub. - Chicago, Illinois : The University of Chicago Press, 2014. - 1 online resource (viii, 228 pages)

Available through University Press Scholarship Online (SHEDL).

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Acknowledgments; Introduction. Tristan's Shadow: The Fate of Sexual Differencein Opera; Chapter 1. Mother Mime: Wagner and the Metaphysics of Sexual Difference; Chapter 2. Mime's Revenge: The Total Work of Art and the Ugly Detail; Chapter 3. Taceat Mulier in Theatro: Richard Strauss's Guntram, Arthur Schopenhauer, and the Exorcism of the Voice; Chapter 4. Erotic Acoustics: The Natural History of the Theater and Der ferne Klang; Chapter 5. Congenital Blindness: Visions of Marriage in the Operas of Eugen d'Albert. Chapter 6. Occult Legacies: Eroticism and the Dynasty in Siegfried Wagner's OperasChapter 7. The Power of the "Verfluchte Lohe": (Post- ) Wagnerian Redheads in Das Rheingold, Fredegundis, and Irrelohe; Coda. "I'm a Stranger Here Myself"; Notes; Index.

'Tristan's Shadow' is an important, highly intelligent, and ambitious study. Rigorously researched, blissfully unencumbered by canonical narratives, and written with Adrian Daub's signature verve, this book provides a new, and entirely compelling, account of German opera after Wagner.

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Wagner, Richard, 1813-1883 --Influence.
Wagner, Richard, 1813-1883
Wagner, Richard 1813-1883


1800-1899


Opera--19th century.
Sex in opera.
Sexualité à l'opéra.
MUSIC--Instruction & Study--Voice.
MUSIC--Lyrics.
MUSIC--Printed Music--Vocal.
Influence (Literary, artistic, etc.)
Opera.
Sex in opera.
Oper
Rezeption
Erotik
Gesamtkunstwerk


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