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Record Nr.

UNINA9910154643803321

Autore

Brown H. M (Hilda Meldrum)

Titolo

The quest for the Gesamtkunstwerk and Richard Wagner / / Hilda Meldrum Brown [[electronic resource]]

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Oxford : , : Oxford University Press, , 2016

ISBN

0-19-182236-1

Edizione

[First edition.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource : illustrations (black and white, and colour)

Disciplina

782.1092

Soggetti

Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

This edition previously issued in print: 2016.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Introduction: the nature of the quest -- The landscape garden -- Romantic drama and the visual arts -- Goethe's Faust: Gesamtkunstwerk or Universaltheater? -- Eighteenth- and nineteenth-century theoretical approaches -- Moment and Motiv: critical approaches to the Ring cycle -- Analysis of the Erda scenes -- Adolphe Appia: a watershed in the evolution of the Gesamtkunstwerk -- Wieland Wagner: the Appia heritage and the Gesamtkunstwerk -- The centenary Ring: deconstruction and the Gesamtkunstwerk.

Sommario/riassunto

This study examines the nature of the interdisciplinary procedures implicit in 'Gesamtkunstwerk' and suggests a critical methodology to illuminate the processes and techniques which Richard Wagner used as a bridge between dramatic text and music, thus creating a unique fusion of the major elements that constitute the 'total work of art'.