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Death-Devoted Heart: Sex and the Sacred in Wagner's Tristan and Isolde.(Book Review)
Death-Devoted Heart: Sex and the Sacred in Wagner's Tristan and Isolde. By Roger Scruton. New York: Oxford University Press, 2004. [vi, 238 p. ISBN 0-19-516691-4. $25.] Bibliography, index.
Wagner's music dramas famously, and problematically, are meant to issue in "redemption," whether it be that of the central characters (the "Flying Dutchman," Tannhauser, Amfortas, Kundry, or Parsifal), the whole fictional society or world represented in the drama (the Ring cycle), or, more fundamentally, the audience itself. What exactly, outside of any concrete theological doctrine, is to be understood by such "redemption" is difficult to determine. For the audience of these ...
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