The Quest for the Gesamtkunstwerk and Richard Wagner
- Author: Brown, Hilda Meldrum
Brown's engaging study of the Gesamtkunstwerk is a valuable contribution to the topic.The journey matters more than the result of the competition... Brown's hunt for the Gesamtkunstwerk does... — More…
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Contents
- Introduction: The Nature of the Quest
- Part I Approaches to the Gesamtkunstwerk before Wagner
- 1 The Landscape Garden
- 2 Romantic Drama and the Visual Arts
- 3 Goethe's Faust: Gesamtkunstwerk or Universaltheater?
- Part II Wagner and the Gesamtkunstwerk: Moment and Motiv
- 4 Eighteenth and Nineteenth Century Theoretical Approaches
- 5 Moment and Motiv: Critical Approaches to the Ring Cycle
- 6 Analysis of the Erda Scenes
- Part III Wagner, the Gesamtkunstwerk, and Performance of the Ring
- 7 Adolphe Appia: A Watershed in the Evolution of the Gesamtkunstwerk
- 8 Wieland Wagner: The Appia Heritage and the Gesamtkunstwerk
- 9 The Centenary Ring: Deconstruction and the Gesamtkunstwerk
- Conclusion
- Appendix - The genesis of Goethe's Faust