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Drama and the World of Richard Wagner.(Book Review)
Drama and the World of Richard Wagner. By Dieter Borchmeyer. Trans. by Daphne Ellis. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2003. [x, 391 p. ISBN 0-691-11497-8. $39.50.] Index.
Dieter Borchmeyer is one of the most active German scholars working in the sprawling area of Wagner studies. As the span of Wagnerian centenary observations unfolded towards 1983, Borchmeyer emerged as author of the substantial monograph Das Theater Richard Wagners: Idee-Dichtung-Wirkung (Stuttgart: P. Reclam, 1982), as editor of a collection of Wagner's writings, Dichtungen und Schriften: Jubilaumsausgabe in zehn Banden, as well as co-editor of Wagner-Parodien (both Frankfurt am Main: ...
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- Magazine article from: Shofar Filler, Susan M. June 22, 2009 700+ words
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- Imagined Germany: Richard Wagner's National Utopia. (Book Reviews).
- Magazine article from: Utopian Studies Bohm, Arnd March 22, 2001 700+ words
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- Magazine article from: The Modern Language Review Scaff, Susan von Rohr October 1, 2001 700+ words
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- Magazine article from: New Criterion Coleman, Alexander December 1, 2001 700+ words
...abundance of books about the works of Richard Wagner is indicative of anything, it...Newman in his four-volume Life of Richard Wagner (1933-1947), a work that...notorious anti-Semitism--see Richard Wagner and the Anti-Semitic Imagination...
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- Newspaper article from: International Herald Tribune Matthew Gurewitsch August 29, 2009 700+ words
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- Richard Wagner's Zurich: The Muse of Place.(Book review)
- Magazine article from: Notes Hatch, Christopher December 1, 2008 700+ words
Richard Wagner's Zurich: The Muse of Place. By Chris Walton. Rochester, NY: Camden...bibliography. In his new book Chris Walton has produced a close study of Richard Wagner's stay of nine years, 1849-58, in Zurich, then a city of refuge...