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Finding an ending : reflections on Wagner's Ring / Philip Kitcher, Richard Schacht. |
| Authors: | Kitcher, Philip, 1947- |
| Call number: | 782.1015 Wagner KIT |
| Publisher: | Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2004. |
| Publication date: | 2004. |
| Subject: |
Music -- Philosophy and aesthetics.
Wagner, Richard, 1813-1883. Ring des Nibelungen. |
| Title: | Finding an ending : reflections on Wagner's Ring / Philip Kitcher, Richard Schacht. |
| Physical description: | xi, 241 p. ; 22 cm. |
| Contents note: | Wagner's philosophers -- Authority and judgment in Don Giovanni -- Alberich and Fricka -- Wotan's challenge -- Meaning and the tradition -- Meaning and the Ring -- Wotan's project -- Wotan's problem -- Loge -- Erda -- Wotan's judgments -- Project Siegfried -- Wotan's dilemmas -- Wotan's authority -- Siegmund and Sieglinde -- Varieties of love -- Brünnhilde's progress -- Brünnhilde's transformation -- Brünnhilde's authority -- Siegfried and other problems -- Ending and renewal. |
| Biography note: | Includes bibliographical references (p. 233-236) and index. |
| Added author: | Schacht, Richard, 1941- |
| ISBN: | 0195173597 |
| LCCN: | 2004041478 |
| Url for this record: | http://sherloc.imcpl.org/?itemid=|library/marc/dynix|954148 |
| Bib No.: | 954148 |