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Richard H. Bell Jr. - Theology of Wagner's Ring Cycle I, Häftad

Häftad, Engelska, 2021

Theology of Wagner's Ring Cycle I

The Genesis and Development of the Tetralogy and the Appropriation of Sources, Artists, Philosophers, and Theologians

Av Richard H. Bell Jr.

Del i serien James Clarke

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The first volume in a two-part analysis of Wagner's most famous work and its theological message.Wagner's Ring is one of the greatest of all artworks of Western civilization, but what is it all about? The power and mystery of Wagner's creation was such that even he felt he stood before his work 'as though before some puzzle'. A clue to the Ring's greatness lies in its multiple avenues of self-disclosure and the corresponding plethora of interpretations that over the years has granted ample scope for directors, and will no doubt do so well into the distant future. One possible interpretation, which Richard Bell argues should be taken seriously, is the Ring as Christian theology. In this first of two volumes, Bell considers, among other things, how the composer's Christian interests may be detected in the 'forging' of his Ring, in his appropriation of sources (whether they be myths and sagas, writers, poets, or philosophers), and in works composed around the same time, especially his Jesus of Nazareth.
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  • Utgivningsdatum: 2021-07-27
  • Mått: 228 x 152 x 24 mm
  • Vikt: 1 837 g
  • Format: Häftad
  • Språk: Engelska
  • Serie: James Clarke
  • Antal sidor: 339
  • Förlag: Boydell & Brewer Ltd
  • ISBN: 9780227177471
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Richard H. Bell is Professor of Theology at the University of Nottingham, UK. He studied theoretical physics at University College London and theology at Oxford and Tübingen. He is author of Provoked to Jealousy (1994), No one seeks for God (1998), The Irrevocable Call of God (2005), Deliver Us from Evil (2007), and Wagner's Parsifal (2013).

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I am not aware of any more meticulous trawl of the voluminous sources for, and influences on, the Ring, through the ancient Greek dramas, Old Norse and Germanic myths, Dante and Shakespeare to Goethe and Schiller. The work of the major German Idealists - Fichte, Kant, Schelling, Hegel, Feuerbach, and Schopenhauer - is subjected to forensic analysis for Wagner's debt to each. Above all, Professor Bell is concerned to demonstrate possible influences on theological and ethical issues in the Ring.

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