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This review is from: Classically Romantic (Hardcover)
After just having read The Tristan Chord by Bryan Magee I happened to buy this book, which is somehow a complementary vision to the Schopenhaeurian's, brilliantly given in Magee's book. But I really was not ready for the big surprise. By concisely beholding Wagner's Ring of the Nibelung in terms of Aristotle's elements of tragedy as expressed in his Poetics - plot (mythos), music, speech, thought, character and spectacle - Jeffrey Buller makes the most precise, lucid and revealing analysis of Wagner I've seen in a long time. Particularly striking are the chapters on Speech, where alliteration or "Stabreim" is exposed; Thought, where "sleep" as a mythic entity is showed to be the key idea of the whole Ring - I'm still mind-boggled by the sheer brigthness of such an insight; and Character, where the idea of the mesianic hero is lucidly unveiled. There's even a pairing of Siegmund as mesianic hero with Hagen as his exact counterpart which never occurred to me. In chapter 1, the problem of Wagner's early classical education is cleared out. This book has given me many a precious clues to better understand a work so great as Wagner's Ring of the Nibelung. I do heartily recommend it to anyone that cares about Wagner's work. |
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Classically Romantic by Jeffrey L. Buller (Paperback - April 4, 2001)
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