Re-Reading Wagner -Mov #13 (Volume 13) (Monatshefte Occasional Volumes) - Hardcover

Grimm, Reinhold

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0299970760 ISBN 13: 9780299970765

Publisher: University of Wisconsin Press, 1993

Synopsis

This multidisciplinary collection of readings offers suggestive new interpretations of Richard Wagner’s ideological position in German history.  The issues discussed range from the biographical—the reasons for Wagner’s travels, his spotted political life—to the aesthetic and ideological, regarding his re-creation of medieval Nuremberg, his representations of gender and nationality, his vocal iconography, his anti-Semitism, and his vegetarianarguments, and, finally, his musical heirs.
    The essays are written by Tamara S. Evans, Edward R. Haymes, Peter Uwe Hohendahl, Peter Morris–Keitel, Alexa Larson–Thorisch, Audrius Dundzila, Marc A. Weiner, Jost Hermand, Frank Trommler, and Hans Rudolf Vaget.  Avoiding journalistic or iconoclastic approaches to Wagner, these writers depart from the usual uncritical admiration of earlier scholars to develop a stimulating and ultimately cohesive collection of new perspectives.

About this title

From the Back Cover:

It is our hope that this book will contribute to keeping alive the controversy about Wagner-in its juxtaposition of progressively social and ecological as well as regressively chauvinistic and anti-Semitic elements-in order not to neglect the one Wagner in favor of the other.

About the Author:

Reinhold Grimm is professor of German and comparative literature at the University of California, Riverside. Jost Hermand is professor of German at the University of Wisconsin Madison.
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About this edition

• Publisher: University of Wisconsin Press
• Publication date: 1993
• ISBN 10: 0299970760
• ISBN 13: 9780299970765
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 160