{"product_id":"modern-myths-and-wagnerian-deconstructions","title":"Modern Myths and Wagnerian Deconstructions","description":"\u003cp\u003eConsisting of six studies that present hermeneutical analyses of Wagnerian dramas, this book discusses Wagner's mature single dramas from \u003ci\u003eHollander\u003c\/i\u003e to \u003ci\u003eParsifal\u003c\/i\u003e with reference to the concept of Romantic irony and the basic theoretical orientation of post-structuralism. Wagner is best known as a composer of mythological works, but these music-dramas contain basic problems that essentially contradict what is regarded as their mythological or legendary nature. They all self-referentially play out certain critical processes. Focusing on the very issue of interpretation, this work asks how Wagner's dramas use their legendary or mythological raw material in a specifically 19th-century Romantic way to create meaning. It is argued that by means of Romantic irony, internal self-reflection or self-consciousness, each work deconstructs its own mythological or legendary nature.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eMusicologists with an interest in Wagner's works, and literary scholars who are interested in interdisciplinary applications of literary-critical theory, will appreciate this unique application of literary, theoretical, and critical concepts to the understanding of his music-dramas. This work will also appeal to scholars of German literature and of German cultural history. It discusses Wagner's single dramas from \u003ci\u003eHoll^Dander\u003c\/i\u003e to \u003ci\u003eParsifal\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Bloomsbury Publishing Plc","offers":[{"title":"Default Product","offer_id":54219521851736,"sku":"9780313305399","price":82.99,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0278\/1295\/4195\/files\/9780313305399__67c1ec4779e6e_a52ebee6-054e-4ea1-8f44-0b60b9b9faa1.jpg?v=1741158072","url":"https:\/\/agendabookshop.com\/products\/modern-myths-and-wagnerian-deconstructions","provider":"Agenda Bookshop","version":"1.0","type":"link"}