Richard Wagner

Richard Wagner Criticism

• Introduction
• Principal Works
• Essays
  • The World as Music and Idea in Wagner's Parsifal
  • Introduction to Wagnerism in European Culture and Politics
  • The Perfect Wagnerite: Shaw's Reading of the Ring.
  • On the Quality of Wagner's Poetry and Prose
  • Wagner's ‘Ring’: Turning the Sky Round
  • What Does Wotan Want?: Ambivalent Feminism in Wagner's Ring
  • The Voice of Authority in Wagner's Ring
  • Wagner's Ring as ‘Universal Poetry.’
  • Why Brünnhilde is the True Hero of the Ring Cycle: An Analysis of Her Psychological Development
  • Transgression and Affirmation: Gender Roles, Moral Codes, and Utopian Vision in Richard Wagner's Operas
  • The Theoretical Essays of 1849 to 1851
  • Wagner's Parsifal between Mystery and Mummery; or, Race, Class, and Gender in Bayreuth
  • Wagner's Ring as Nineteenth-Century Artifact
  • Introduction: Wagner and the Body
  • Music Drama and the End of History
  • Richard Wagner's Cosmology: Self-Deception, Self-Realization, and the Destruction of Nature
  • Redemption Revalued in Tristan und Isolde: Schopenhauer, Wagner, Nietzsche
  • ‘Alles was ist, endet’: Living with the Knowledge of Death in Richard Wagner's Der Ring des Nibelungen
  • Parsifal
  • Conclusion: What Does the Ring Mean?
• Further Reading