{"product_id":"wagners-visions-9781580464826","title":"Wagner's Visions","description":"\u003cb\u003eExamines the impact of contemporary ideas about the psyche and neglected yet crucial artistic influences on the psychological dimension of Wagner's operas, especially \u003ci\u003eDie Feen\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eDer fliegende Holländer\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eTannhäuser\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eLohengrin\u003c\/i\u003e, and the \u003ci\u003eRing\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eWagner's Visions studies crucial influences on Wagner's dramatic style during the years before and just after the failed Dresden revolutionary uprising of 1849. Offering a detailed examination of \u003ci\u003eDie Feen\u003c\/i\u003e, Wagner's least-known complete opera, together with analysis of\u003ci\u003e Der fliegende Holländer\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eTannhäuser\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eLohengrin\u003c\/i\u003e, and the four \u003ci\u003eRing\u003c\/i\u003e dramas, Katherine Syer explores the inner experiences of Wagner's protagonists. Sources ofparticular political significance include the fables of the eighteenth-century Venetian playwright Carlo Gozzi, the Iphigenia operas of Christoph Willibald Gluck, and the legacy of the martyr Theodor Körner, whose poetry became the lingua franca of the revolutionary movement to liberate and unify Germany. Syer's book offers fresh insights into the historical context that gave rise to Wagner's dramatic art, revealing how his distinct and powerful imagery is intimately bound up with the crises and instabilities of his era.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e  Katherine R. Syer is associate professor of theatre and musicology at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.","brand":"Katherine R. Syer","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48280431722747,"sku":"9781580464826","price":130.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0779\/3917\/9771\/files\/9781580464826_402bf57c-2660-41d6-ad66-371428529721.jpg?v=1772485061","url":"https:\/\/indiepubs.com\/products\/wagners-visions-9781580464826","provider":"IndiePubs","version":"1.0","type":"link"}