Wagner and SuicideMcFarland, 2010/06/25 - 203 ページ Composer Richard Wagner (1813-1883) likely suffered from a manic-depressive disorder but in his time very little was known about mental illness, and suicide was not a topic for general discussion. Wagner was often plagued by extreme mood swings; he used his operas, especially the librettos, to express himself and his personal difficulties. This investigation of the suicidal themes in Wagner's life and operas--Die Fliegender Hollander, Tannhauser, Lohengrin, Tristan und Isolde, Die Meistersinger, the Ring cycle, and Parsifal--shows how manic-depressive illness, particularly the depressive part of it, affected Wagner's life and art. It also analyzes the influence of Giambattista Vico's theories of cycles (and how these theories appeared in Wagner's work), suicide as a theatrical and operatic phenomenon, and the way in which the theme of suicide has appeared in other works of the literary and performing arts. |
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... connected Wagner with mental illness ; other commentators on both the man and his operas have found many symptoms of neurosis . In his own lifetime , Wagner's manic spending sprees and constant problems with creditors soon came to gen ...
... connecting love with suicide . On June 7 , 1855 , Wagner again wrote to Liszt , and here again the subject was the connection between love and suicide . The immediate occa- sion for this letter was Wagner's reading of Dante . I have ...
... connection between the process of creating art , in this case his opera Tristan und Isolde , and his ideation about death and suicide . He indicates that only his creativity keeps him from committing suicide , yet the difficulty of ...
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Der Fliegende Hollander The Isolated Personality | 21 |
Tannhauser The Artistic Personality and Suicide | 37 |
Lohengrin The Dream Persona from Another World | 55 |
Tristan und Isolde Suicide as the Best Alternative | 73 |
Die Meistersinger von Nurnberg Mania and Reconciliation | 94 |
The Ring Cycle Suicide as Threat and Triumph | 111 |
Parsifal Beyond Polarity | 148 |
Suicide in Opera and Drama | 165 |
Wagner the Decadents and the Modern British Novel | 172 |
Conclusion | 182 |
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