Wagnerism

art and politics in the shadow of music

"A large-canvas narrative history, charting the impact of the cultural titan Wagner on art and politics. Ross will show how various artists--composers, novelists, poets, filmmakers--wrestled with the legacy of Wagner in the twentieth century"--

Prelude : Death in Venice --?Rheingold : Wagner, Nietzsche, and the Ring --?Tristan Chord : Baudelaire and the Symbolists --?Swan Knight : Victorian Britain and Gilded Age America --?Grail Temple : Esoteric, Decadent, and Satanic Wagner --?Holy German Art : The Kaiserreich and Fin-de-Siècle Vienna --?Nibelheim : Jewish and Black Wagner --?Venusberg : Feminist and Gay Wagner --?Brünnhilde's Rock : Willa Cather and the Singer-Novel --?Magic Fire : Modernism, 1900 to 1914 --?Nothung : The First World War and Hitler's Youth --?Ring of Power : Revolution and Russia --?Flying Dutchman : Ulysses, The Waste Land, The Waves --?Siegfried's Death : Nazi Germany and Thomas Mann --?Ride of the Valkyries : Film from The Birth of a Nation to Apocalypse Now --?The Wound : Wagnerism After 1945.