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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John Louis DiGaetani. Contents Acknowledgments Introduction 1 Wagner's Bipolar Life : Mania and Depression 2 Die Fliegender Holländer : The Isolated Personality Tannhäuser : The Artistic Personality and Suicide 3 4 Lohengrin : The Dream ...
... depressive behavior . His life was often governed by extreme mood swings that were bipolar in their nature and in their cyclical quality , and we will see cyclical themes used regularly in Wag- nerian opera itself . Often these cyclical ...
John Louis DiGaetani. The popular view of manic - depressive illness is that the manic part of the cycle is a wonderful experience of being able to do anything , and that only the depressive part of the cycle is painful . But medical ...
... , especially the cycle of enjoying life but then desiring death , will recur in Wagner's correspondence and , more importantly , in his operas . Chapter 1 Wagner's Bipolar Life : Mania and Depression Bipolar 6 Introduction.
... depression . Kay Redfield Jamison's book Touched with Fire : Manic - Depressive Illness and the Artistic Temperament persuasively argues that this illness often appears in artists and writers . Jamison points out in that perceptive book ...
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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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