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Nattiez Wagner Androgyne
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ISBN: 978-1-4008-6324-2
Verlag: De Gruyter
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E-Book, Englisch, 380 Seiten
Reihe: Princeton Legacy Library
ISBN: 978-1-4008-6324-2
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: 1 - PDF Watermark
That Wagner conceived of himself creatively as both man and woman is central to an understanding of his life and art. So argues Jean-Jacques Nattiez in this richly insightful work, where he draws from semiology, music criticism, and psychoanalysis to explore such topics as Wagner's theories of music drama, his anti-Semitism, and his psyche.
Wagner, who wrote the libretti for the operas he composed, maintained that art is the union of the feminine principle, music, and the masculine principle, poetry. In light of this androgynous model, Nattiez reinterprets the Wagnerian canon, especially the Ring of the Nibelung, which is shown to contain a metaphorical transposition of Wagner's conception of the history of music: Siegfried appears as the poet, Brunnhilde, as music, and their union is an androgynous one in which individual identity fades and the lovers revert to a preconflictual, presexual state.
Nattiez traces the androgynous symbol in Wagner's theoretical writings throughout his career. Looking to explain how this idea, so closely bound up with sexuality, took root in Wagner's mind, the author considers the possibility of Freudian and Jungian interpretations. In particular he explores the composer's relationship with his mother, a distant woman who discouraged his interest in the theater, and his stepfather, a loving man whom Wagner suspected was not only his real father but also a Jew. Along with psychoanalysis, Nattiez critically applies various structuralist and feminist theories to Wagner's creative enterprise to demonstrate how the nature of twentieth-century hermeneutics is itself androgynous.
Originally published in 1993.
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Weitere Infos & Material
Preface
Note to the English Edition
Bibliographical Note
Pt. 1 Androgyny and the Ring: From Theory to Practice
Introduction to Part One: Mythic Narrative, Theoretical Discourse 3
Ch. 1 The Theoretical Essays of 1849 to 1851 12
Ch. 2 Wieland the Smith 43
Ch. 3 The Ring as a Mythic Account of the History of Music 53
Ch. 4 Art as a Metaphor of Itself 91
Pt. 2 Music and Poetry: The Metamorphoses of Wagnerian Androgyny
Introduction to Part Two 99
Ch. 5 Wagnerian Androgyny and Its Romantic Counterpart 102
Ch. 6 Musica Triumphans (1851-1873) 128
Ch. 7 The Return of Androgyny (1878-1883) 163
Conclusion to Part Two 173
Pt. 3 Wagner and Androgynous Hermeneutics
Ch. 8 Psychoanalyzing Wagner 181
Ch. 9 Animus-Anima 219
Ch. 10 Androgynous Structuralism 236
Ch. 11 Marxism, Feminism, and Romanticism 254
Ch. 12 Deconstruction or Restoration of Meaning? 263
Epilogue: Interpreting Wagner in the Age of Doubt 275
Catalog of Wagner's Writings 303
Notes 323
References 339
Index 353
