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Cicora, Mary Angela was born on September 21, 1957 in Ridgewood, New Jersey, United States. Daughter of Samuel M. and Cecelia Cicora.
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(Modern Myths and Wagnerian Deconstructions: Hermeneutic Approaches to Wagner's Music-Dramas) Author: Mary A. Cicora published on (January, 2000)
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Modern Myths and Wagnerian Deconstructions: Hermeneutic Approaches to Wagner's Music-Dramas (Contributions to the Study of Music and Dance)
( Consisting of six studies that present hermeneutical an...)
Consisting of six studies that present hermeneutical analyses of Wagnerian dramas, this book discusses Wagner's mature single dramas from Hollander to Parsifal with reference to the concept of Romantic irony and the basic theoretical orientation of post-structuralism. Wagner is best known as a composer of mythological works, but these music-dramas contain basic problems that essentially contradict what is regarded as their mythological or legendary nature. They all self-referentially play out certain critical processes. Focusing on the very issue of interpretation, this work asks how Wagner's dramas use their legendary or mythological raw material in a specifically 19th-century Romantic way to create meaning. It is argued that by means of Romantic irony, internal self-reflection or self-consciousness, each work deconstructs its own mythological or legendary nature. Musicologists with an interest in Wagner's works, and literary scholars who are interested in interdisciplinary applications of literary-critical theory, will appreciate this unique application of literary, theoretical, and critical concepts to the understanding of his music-dramas. This work will also appeal to scholars of German literature and of German cultural history. It discusses Wagner's single dramas from Holl^Dander to Parsifal.
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From History to Myth: Wagner's Tannhäuser and its Literary Sources (Germanic Studies in America)
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The book places Wagner's Tannhäuser within the German literary tradition. Separate chapters of the book are devoted to discussions of the medieval sources and the analogous works by Ludwig Tieck, E.T.A. Hoffmann, and Heinrich Heine. These studies, which converge on Wagner's opera, not only highlight various aspects or facets of Wagner's Tannhäuser, but at the same time show the transmission of the Tannhäuser and song contest legends into the nineteenth century and how Wagner combined them.
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Mary Angela Cicora
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Bachelor, Yale University, 1979; Master of Arts, Cornell Univercity, 1982; Doctor of Philosophy, Cornell Univercity, 1985.
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Visiting scholar Stanford (California) University, since 1986.
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Modern Myths and Wagnerian Deconstructions: Hermeneutic Approaches to Wagner's Music-Dramas (Contributions to the Study of Music and Dance)
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From History to Myth: Wagner's Tannhäuser and its Literary Sources (Germanic Studies in America)
(The book places Wagner's Tannhäuser within the German lit...)
- From History to Myth: Wagner's Tannh?user and its Literary Sources (German Studies in America) by Mary A. Cicora (1992-06-01)
- Modern Myths and Wagnerian Deconstructions: Hermeneutic Approaches to Wagner's M
- (Modern Myths and Wagnerian Deconstructions: Hermeneutic Approaches to Wagner's Music-Dramas) Author: Mary A. Cicora published on (January, 2000)
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Modern Myths and Wagnerian Deconstructions: Hermeneutic Approaches to Wagner's Music-Dramas (Contributions to the Study of Music and Dance)
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Member Phi Beta Kappa.
