Wagner Androgyne: A Study in Interpretation

by Nattiez, Jean-Jacques; Spencer, Stewart

• ISBN13: 9780691048321
• ISBN10: 0691048320
• Edition: Reprint
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 1998-01-01
• Publisher: Princeton Univ Pr

Summary

Music professor Jean-Jacques Nattiez examines Wagner's concept of himself as both man and woman. "Nattiez's synthetic approach to Wagner's theory and practice . . . coupled with his profound understanding of the composer's life, make this volume a major contribution to Wagnerian studies. . . . It is a highly enriching and most comprehensive treatment of Wagner the artist and the human being".--Steven R. Cerf, WAGNER NOTES.

Table of Contents

Preface	xi	(6)
Note to the English Edition	xvii	(2)
Bibliographical Note	xix
PART ONE. Androgyny and the Ring: From Theory to Practice	3	(96)
INTRODUCTION TO PART ONE	3	(9)
Mythic Narrative, Theoretical Discourse
CHAPTER ONE The Theoretical Essays of 1849 to 1851	12	(31)
CHAPTER TWO Wieland the Smith	43	(10)
CHAPTER THREE The Ring as a Mythic Account of the History of Music	53	(38)
CHAPTER FOUR Art as a Metaphor of Itself	91	(8)
PART TWO. Music and Poetry: The Metamorphoses of Wagnerian Androgyny	99	(82)
INTRODUCTION TO PART TWO	99	(3)
CHAPTER FIVE Wagnerian Androgyny and Its Romantic Counterpart	102	(26)
CHAPTER SIX Musica Triumphans (1851-1873)	128	(35)
CHAPTER SEVEN The Return of Androgyny (1878-1883)	163	(10)
CONCLUSION TO PART TWO	173	(8)
PART THREE. Wagner and Androgynous Hermeneutics	181	(94)
CHAPTER EIGHT Psychoanalyzing Wagner	181	(38)
CHAPTER NINE Animus-Anima	219	(17)
CHAPTER TEN Androgynous Structuralism	236	(18)
CHAPTER ELEVEN Marxism, Feminism, and Romanticism	254	(9)
CHAPTER TWELVE Deconstruction or Restoration of Meaning?	263	(12)
EPILOGUE Interpreting Wagner in the Age of Doubt	275	(28)
Catalog of Wagner's Writings	303	(20)
Notes	323	(16)
References	339	(14)
Index	353