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Index
Copyright Page
Title Page
Contents
Introduction: Figuring Out Wagner?
Chapter One - The Archetypal Theatrical Scene: From Leubald to Die Feen
A Word about Felix Mendelssohn
Chapter Two - The Blandishments of Grand Opera: Das Liebesverbot and Rienzi
A Word about Giacomo Meyerbeer
Chapter Three - “Deep shock” and “a violent change of direction”: Der fliegende Holländer
A Word about Heinrich Heine
Chapter Four - Rituals to Combat Fear and Loneliness: Tannhäuser und der Sängerkrieg auf Wartburg
A Word about Josef Rubinstein
Chapter Five - A Bedtime Story with Dire Consequences: Lohengrin
A Word about Arnold Schoenberg
Chapter Six - The Revolutionary Drafts: Achilles, Jesus of Nazareth, Siegfried’s Death, and Wieland the Smith
A Word about Paul Bekker
Chapter Seven - “We have art so as not to be destroyed by the truth”: The Ring as a Nineteenth-Century Myth
A Word about Angelo Neumann
Chapter Eight - “My music making is in fact magic making, for I just cannot produce music coolly and mechanically”: The Art of the Ring—Seen from the Beginning
A Word about George Steiner
Chapter Nine - “He resembles us to a tee; he is the sum total of present-day intelligence”: The Art of the Ring—Wotan’s Music
A Word about Sergei Eisenstein
Chapter Ten - “A mystical pit, giving pleasure to individuals”: Tristan und Isolde
A Word about Ernst Bloch
Chapter Eleven - “A magnificent, overcharged, heavy, late art”: Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg
A Word about Berthold Auerbach
Chapter Twelve - “They’re hurrying on toward their end, though they think they will last for ever”: The Art of the Ring—Seen from the End
A Word about Theodor W. Adorno
Chapter Thirteen - “You will see—diminished sevenths were just not possible!”: Parsifal
A Word about Gustav Mahler
Chapter Fourteen - Wagner as the Sleuth of Modernism
Notes
Bibliography
General Index
Index of Wagner’s Works
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