Richard Wagner, Fritz Lang, and the Nibelungen : the dramaturgy of disavowal /
This book draws on narrative and film theory, psychoanalysis, and musicology to explore the relationship between aesthetics and anti-Semitism in two important and controversial landmarks in German culture. David Levin argues that Richard Wagner's opera cycle Der Ring des Nibelungen and Fritz La...
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| Format: | Licensed eBooks |
| Language: | English |
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Princeton, N.J. ; Chichester :
Princeton University Press
1999.
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| Series: | Princeton studies in opera.
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| Online Access: | https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.2307/j.ctt1287k6s |
Table of Contents:
- Representation's bad object: the Nibelungen, aggression, and aesthetics
- Where narration was, there Darstellung shall be: Wagner and the scene of narration
- Viewing with a vengeance: the dramaturgy of appearances in Fritz Lang's Siegfried
- Disavowal and figuration: the Nibelungen after the Third Reich.