Author: Basil Woodward CrumpPublisher:
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Category : Grail
Languages : en
Pages : 206
Book Description
Parsifal, Lohengrin and the Legend of the Holy Grail
Author: Basil Woodward CrumpPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Grail
Languages : en
Pages : 206
Book Description
Legends and Operas of Tannhäuser, Parsifal, Lohengrin, Tristan and Isolde
Author: Wesley Caleb SawyerPublisher:
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Category : Operas
Languages : en
Pages : 234
Book Description
Richard Wagner and the English
Author: Anne Dzamba SessaPublisher: Fairleigh Dickinson Univ Press
ISBN: 9780838620557
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 206
Book Description
Wagner was more than a composer--he was a cultural phenomenon. The author seeks to explain this phenomenon. One claim is that Wagner's music dramas served to provide encouragement and inspiration to Victorians struggling with the problems of a changing and challenging era. Intellectual developments (including the theories of Charles Darwin and the impact of historical scholarship on Biblical studies) had struck a severe blow against religious orthodoxy. Thus, the English strove to retain their inherited or instinctive beliefs and at the same time to accept the conclusions of natural and social science. Frustrated by the academic arguments, many persons turned to less intellectual substitutes, including Wagnerism. Almost all of Wagner's plots involve some form of redemption and hunger for the infinite. The author also claims that Wagnerism drew on the Victorian need for social justice, and points out that just as many Wagnerians sought emancipation from confining materialist philosophies or simply delighted in sexual liberation.
In Search of the Holy Grail
Author: Veronica OrtenbergPublisher: A&C Black
ISBN: 9781852853839
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 374
Book Description
This book surveys the influence of the middle ages, and of medieval attitudes and values, on later periods and on the modern world. Many artistic, political and literary movements have drawn inspiration and sought their roots in the thousand years between 500 and 1500 AD. Medieval Christianity, and its rich legacy, has been the essential background to European culture as a whole.Gothic architecture and chivalry were two keys to Romanticism, while nationalists, including the Nazis, looked back to the middle ages to find emerging signs of national character. In literature few myths have been as durable or popular as those of King Arthur, stretching from the Dark Ages to Hollywood. In Search of the Holy Grail is a vivid account of how later ages learnt about and interpreted the middle ages.
The Speaker
Author: The Hibbert Journal
Author: Lawrence Pearsall JacksPublisher:
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Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 894
Book Description
A quarterly review of religion, theology, and philosophy.
Tristan and Isolde: an Interpretation Embodying Wagner's Own Explanations
Author: Alice Leighton CleatherPublisher: London : Methuen
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 170
Book Description
The Publishers Weekly
Author: Publisher:
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Category : American literature
Languages : en
Pages : 2122
Book Description
A New Light on the Renaissance Displayed in Contemporary Emblems
Author: Harold BayleyPublisher: London Dent 1909.
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Category : Albigenses
Languages : en
Pages : 294
Book Description
Author: