The Importance of Being Unfaithful to Wagner
Edward Said, 11 February 1993
Wagner in Performance
edited by Barry Millington and Stewart Spencer.
Yale, 214 pp., £19.95, July 1992,0 300 05718 0 Show More
edited by Barry Millington and Stewart Spencer.
Yale, 214 pp., £19.95, July 1992,
Wagner: Race and Revolution
by Paul Lawrence Rose.
Faber, 304 pp., £20, June 1992,9780571164653 Show More
by Paul Lawrence Rose.
Faber, 304 pp., £20, June 1992,
Wagner Handbook
edited by Ulrich Müller and Peter Wapnewski, translated by John Deathridge.
Harvard, 711 pp., £27.50, October 1992,0 674 94530 1 Show More
edited by Ulrich Müller and Peter Wapnewski, translated by John Deathridge.
Harvard, 711 pp., £27.50, October 1992,
Richard Wagner’s Visit to Rossini and An Evening at Rossini’s in Beau-Séjour
by Edmond Michotte, translated by Herbert Weinstock.
Quartet, 144 pp., £12.95, November 1992,9780704370319 Show More
by Edmond Michotte, translated by Herbert Weinstock.
Quartet, 144 pp., £12.95, November 1992,
“... The bewildering variety of interests and standards in Wagner scholarship (or what passes for it) is congenitally resistant to study.’ Thus John Deathridge, the leading Wagner scholar of the English-speaking world, at the beginning of his chapter on Wagner research in the Wagner Handbook. If so learned and au courant a scholar as Deathridge is daunted by trying to make sense of Wagner research and interpretation, what about the rest of us? For not only was Wagner both contemptuous of history in general and a constant re-maker of his own history, but the enormous range of materials that have survived him (including, of course, his 15 Operas) has made almost any relatively straightforward approach to him impossible ... ”
