Title: Wagner in retrospect :
Authors: Shaw, Leroy R.; Cirillo, Nancy Rockmore,; Miller, Marion S.; University of Illinois at Chicago Circle.
Date: 1987
Publisher: Rodopi,
Physical description: i, 241 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Language: English
LC classification: M
Contents: Wagner : the continuing appeal / Andrew Porter -- Language and the credibility of space : Wagner's symbolic dependence on Aeschylus / Raymond Prier -- The priesthood of Wagner / Michael Hicks -- Wagner and the language of feeling / Alexander Ringer -- Le Ring comme histoire métaphorique de la musique / Jean-Jacques Nattiez -- Redeemed from rebirth : the evolving meaning of Wagner's Ring / Warren Darcy -- Wahnfried : some metaphors in Die Meistersinger / M. Owen Lee -- The little word "und" : Tristan und Isolde as verbal construct / Ulrich Weisstein -- Strategies for redemption : Der Ring des Nibelungen and Faust / Hans Rudolf Vaget -- Wagner and Paris / Robert Geisberg -- Wagner and Venice / John W. Barker -- Wagner and Mallarmé : aesthetic rivalry / Elwood Hartmann -- Wagner and Marxist aesthetics / John Bokina -- Wagner and the Russian left / Bernice G. Rosenthal -- The Wagners' Jewish friends / Eric Werner -- Wagner and Levi : cooperation or resentment? / Klaus J. Herrmann -- Wagner's anti-semitism and the dignity of art / Philipp P. Fehl -- Weltatem : on Wagner's media technology / Friedrich Kittler -- The Ring-movie and the Ring-text / Gerda Jordan -- In the shadow of "R"? : Cosima Wagner's diaries / David Large -- Der Fall Barzun : Wagner and the 19th century / John D. Heyl -- Wagner as entrepreneur / Thomas Willis.
Notes: Papers (some slightly altered for publication) presented at the conference "Wagner in retrospect: a centennial reappraisal" held at the University of Illinois at Chicago on Nov. 9-12, 1983. Preface signed Wagner Centennial Committee.
Subject headings (LCSH): Wagner, Richard, 1813-1883--Congresses.; Wagner, Richard, 1813-1883--Criticism and interpretation.