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9781680538120 Academic Inspection Copy

The Wound That Will Never Heal

An Allegorical Interpretation of Richard Wagner's The Ring of the Nibelung
  • ISBN-13: 9781680538120
  • Publisher: ACADEMICA PRESS
    Imprint: ACADEMICA PRESS
  • By Paul Brian Heise
  • Price: AUD $257.00
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  • Availability: This book is temporarily out of stock, order will be despatched as soon as fresh stock is received.
  • Local release date: 29/12/2021
  • Format: Undefined (229.00mm X 152.00mm) 135 pages Weight: 333g
  • Categories: Western "classical" music [AVGC]Philosophy [HP]
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Paul Brian Heise's The Wound That Will Never Heal is an original allegorical reading of Richard Wagner's epic music drama The Ring of the Nibelung. Heise challenges the standard view that Wagner merely dramatizes the conflict between love and power and demonstrates instead that his greatest work is an allegory exploring humanity's longing for transcendent value and that quest's paradoxical establishment of a science-based secular society. By employing a more extensive analysis of primary evidence than any prior interpretation, The Wound That Will Never Heal is the first interpretation to propose and sustain a global and conceptually coherent account of the entire Ring.
Paul Brian Heise is an internationally recognized author and specialist on Richard Wagner and editor of www.wagnerheim.com. He lives in Stuart, Florida.
"A stance more questioning than most"--Robert Donington "The Wagnerian interpretation to end all interpretations, for the author sees in Wagner's later music-dramas the key to unlock the riddle of human nature."--William Webster "One of the most important contributions to Wagnerian scholarship that we have seen" --Roger Scruton
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