Eine Mittheilung an meine Freunde: Lebens- und Schaffensmythen in der letzten Zürcher Kunstschrift
- Submitting institution
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Oxford Brookes University
- Unit of assessment
- 33 - Music, Drama, Dance, Performing Arts, Film and Screen Studies
- Output identifier
- 186664582
- Type
- C - Chapter in book
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- Book title
- Wagner - Gender - Mythen. Wagner in der Diskussion, Bd. 13.
- Publisher
- Königshausen & Neumann
- ISBN
- 9783826057298
- Open access status
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- Month of publication
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- Year of publication
- 2015
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- Output has been delayed by COVID-19
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- Forensic science
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- Criminology
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- Interdisciplinary
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- Number of additional authors
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0
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- Proposed double-weighted
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- Non-English
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- English abstract
- Richard Wagner’s final theoretical treatise from his Zurich years, Eine Mittheilung an meine Freunde occupies a pivotal position among his prose works. Wagner’s biographical narrative, which is replete with deliberate misinformation and ingenious self-stylisations, continues to shape the interpretation of his earlier operas. It likewise familiarised a wide readership with concepts that would be vital for the reception of the Ring and the later music dramas. This chapter investigates the interdependence between Wagner’s self-stylisation as the originator of the “artwork of the future” on the one hand, and the extended network of gendered metaphors he employs on the other.
