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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... mother . As long as Friedrich Nietzsche remained a close friend of Wagner's , " genius " was the word that most often appeared in Nietzsche's descrip- tions of the composer . But after their abrupt break , Nietzsche often referred to ...
... mother figure who would give him the unconditional love he did not receive from his own mother . When as a child he cried in the dark because of his nightmares , Wagner's mother simply put him in the furthest corner of her apartment to ...
... mother of six children , had taken control of the tiller . There was a violent squall , and she grew anxious and sprang her luff : the waves drove the vessel against a raft , so that it cracked apart . I was seized only by the sense of ...
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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 |
Bibliography | 187 |
Index | 193 |