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

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Daub, Adrian

Material type: Text

TextPublication details: Chicago, Illinois : The University of Chicago Press, 2014.Description: 1 online resource (viii, 228 pages)Content type:

text

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computer

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online resource

ISBN:

9780226082271
022608227X

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Electronic books.

Additional physical formats: Print version: No titleDDC classification:

782.109034 23

LOC classification:

ML1705 .D383 2014

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Contents:

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.

Summary: '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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Includes bibliographical references and 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.