Tristan s Shadow Sexuality and the Total Work of Art After Wagner - Sexuality and the Total Work of Art After Wagner

Drawing on the discourses of psychoanalysis, evolutionary biology, and other fields of study that informed Richards Wagner's world, the author traces the influence of Gesamtkunstwerk and eroticism from their classic expressions in Tristan und Isolde into the work of the generation of composers that followed, including Zemlinsky, and Strauss.

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Drawing on the discourses of psychoanalysis, evolutionary biology, and other fields of study that informed Richards Wagner's world, the author traces the influence of Gesamtkunstwerk and eroticism from their classic expressions in Tristan und Isolde into the work of the generation of composers that followed, including Zemlinsky, and Strauss.

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• Authors: Adrian Daub, Daub Adrian
• Publisher: University Of Chicago Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 25.11.2013
• EAN: 9780226082134
• ISBN: 978-0-226-08213-4
• No. of pages: 240
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > Regional and national histories; European History, HISTORY / Europe / General, MUSIC / Genres & Styles / Opera, Opera, c 1800 to c 1900, 19th century, c 1800 to c 1899