Levin Richard Wagner, Fritz Lang, and the Nibelungen

The Dramaturgy of Disavowal
Erscheinungsjahr 2014
ISBN: 978-1-4008-6669-4
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, Band 14, 224 Seiten

Reihe: Princeton Studies in Opera

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Autoren/Hrsg.

Levin, David J.

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Musikwissenschaft Musikgattungen Opernmusik

Inhaltsverzeichnis

List of Illustrations

Preface

Ch. 1 Representation's Bad Object: The Nibelungen, Aggression, and Aesthetics 3

Ch. 2 Where Narration Was, There Darstellung Shall Be: Wagner and the Scene of Narration 30

Ch. 3 Viewing with a Vengeance: The Dramaturgy of Appearances in Fritz Lang's Siegfried 96

Postscript: Disavowal and Figuration: The Nibelungen after the Third Reich 141

Notes 151

Works Cited 189

Index 199

Über Autor(innen)

David J. Levin is Associate Professor of Germanic Languages and Literature at the University of Chicago. He is the editor of Opera Through Other Eyes. In addition to his academic work, he has served as a dramaturg at the Frankfurt Opera, the Bremen Opera, and the Frankfurt Ballet.