Beyond reason Wagner contra Nietzsche / Karol Berger.
| Author/creator | Berger, Karol, 1947- |
| Format | Electronic |
| Publication Info | Oakland, California : University of California Press, [2017] |
| Description | 1 online resource. |
| Supplemental Content | Full text available from Ebook Central - Academic Complete |
| Subjects |
| Contents | Prologue: beyond autonomy -- The secret of music-dramatic form: music drama as opera -- Der Ring des Nibelungen: the anarchist utopia -- Tristan und Isolde: the erotic utopia -- Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg: politics after Tristan -- Parsifal: ethics after Tristan -- Epilogue: Wagner contra Nietzsche. |
| Abstract | "Beyond Reason relates Wagner's works to the philosophical and cultural ideas of his time, centering on the four music dramas he created in the second half of his career: Der Ring des Nibelungen, Tristan und Isolde, Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg, and Parsifal. Karol Berger seeks to penetrate the "secret" of large-scale form in Wagner's music dramas and to answer those critics, most prominently Nietzsche, who condemned Wagner for his putative inability to weld small expressive gestures into larger wholes. Organized by individual opera, this is essential reading for both musicologists and Wagner experts."--Provided by publisher. |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Access restriction | Available only to authorized users. |
| Technical details | Mode of access: World Wide Web |
| Source of description | Description based on print version record and CIP data provided by publisher. |
| Issued in other form | Print version: Berger, Karol, 1947- author. Beyond reason Oakland, California : University of California Press, [2017] 9780520292758 |
| Genre/form | Electronic books. |
| LCCN | 2016017906 |
| ISBN | 9780520966130 (ebook) |
| ISBN | (cloth ; alk. paper) |