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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... tell you how often their patients talk about suicidal fantasies , and even about suicide attempts , but this topic remains in most circumstances taboo for general discussion . However , Rich- ard Wagner's operas address this generally ...
... tells only part of the suffering of this composer , and Mann realized how much suffering Wagner endured . It is certainly significant that in his final opera , Parsifal , one of the characters , Amfortas , has a wound that will not heal ...
... tells how , as a small child , the uncontrollable vividness of his imagination had given him nightmares every night from which he would awake screaming , with the result that none of his brothers or sisters would sleep near him , and he ...
... telling Liszt that he plans to write Tristan und Isolde , a monument to love , and then to kill himself . These letters to Liszt were the most personal he had ever written , and clearly contain a homoerotic element , connecting love ...
... tell you that the only reason for my continuing to live is the irresistible impulse of creating a number of works of art which have their vital force in me . I recognize beyond all doubt that this act of creating and completing alone ...
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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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