In search of the supernal
Subtitle: pre-existence, eternal marriage, and apotheosis in German literary, operatic, and cinematic texts
By: Alan Keele.
Publisher: Agenda Verlag
Published: 2003
Place of publication: Münster
Language: eng
Number of pages: 347
Subjects: Theology, Doctrinal, in literature.; Apotheosis in literature.; German literature -- History and criticism.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: The angel films of Wim Wenders : a restoration of eternal perspective through aesthetic recollections of the preexistence; title: Die Zauberflöte : Mozart's magical celebration of apotheosis, the man/woman monad, and the temple as blueprint for the celestial life; title: Beethoven's Fidelio; title: Leonore's search for, discovery, and resurrection of her husband Florestan : yet another retelling of the myth of Isis and Osiris (with a digression on Der Freischütz); title: Wolfram's Parzivâl : redeeming the race of Adam and Eve through Metanoia and by Imitatio Christi; title: from a wagon load of sin to the perfection of paradise; title: from serpent-bruised heel to the atonement of the true lover; title: Fulfillment or anticlimax? The Parzivâl story as Richard Wagner's sacred Bühnenweihfestspiel; title: From adulteress to goddess : repentance, apotheosis, and eternal marriage in Der Rosenkavalier of Hugo von Hofmannsthal and Richard Strauss; title: Die Frau ohne Schatten by Hofmannsthal and Strauss; title: a tally of our themes in one symbolic sum.