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Wagner: Terrible Man & His Truthful Art

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Wagner: Terrible Man & His Truthful Art

By: M. Owen Lee

How is it possible for a seriously flawed human being to produce art that is good, true, and beautiful? Why is the art of Richard Wagner, a very imperfect man, important and even indispensable to us? In this volume, Father Owen Lee ventures an answer to those questions by way of a figure in Sophocles – the hero Philoctetes. Gifted by his god with a bow that would always shoot true to the mark and indispensable to his fellow Greeks, he was marked by the same god with an odious wound that made him hateful and hated. Sophocles' powerful insight is that those blessed by the gods and indispensable to men are visited as well with great vulnerability and suffering. Wagner: The Terrible Man and His Truthful Art traces some of Wagner's extraordinary influence for good and ill on a century of art and politics – on Eliot and Proust as well as on Adolf Hitler – and discusses in detail Wagner's Tannhouser, the work in which the composer first dramatised the Faustian struggle of a creative artist in whom 'two souls dwell.' In the course of this penetrating study, Father Lee argues that Wagner's ambivalent art is indispensable to us, life-enhancing and ultimately healing.

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1442658711

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Wagner

The Terrible Man and His Truthful Art

By: M. Owen Lee

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The Terrible Man and His Truthful Art

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Father Lee traces some of Wagner's extraordinary influence for good and ill on a century of art and politicsand argues that Wagner's ambivalent art is indispensable to us, life-enhancing and ultimately healing.

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0802082912

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9780802082916

Father Lee's Opera Quiz Book

By: M. Owen Lee

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Father Lee's Opera Quiz Book

By: M. Owen Lee

Join quizmaster Father Lee for forty-five opera related puzzles. Brain teasers include straight forward quizzes, anagrams, vertical patterns, crostics, and crossword puzzles in categories such as opera and baseball or opera at the movies.

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0802083846

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9780802083845

Wagner and the Wonder of Art

An Introduction to Die Meistersinger

By: M. Owen Lee

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Wagner and the Wonder of Art

An Introduction to Die Meistersinger

By: M. Owen Lee

In Wagner and the Wonder of Art, renowned opera expert M. Owen Lee provides an introduction to the opera and an analysis that will surprise even those veteran operagoers who may not have explored the work's intricate structure and the emotional drama at its centre.

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0802095739

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9780802095732

Virgil as Orpheus

A Study of the Georgics

By: M. Owen Lee

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Virgil as Orpheus

A Study of the Georgics

By: M. Owen Lee

Though John Dryden once called the Georgics "the best Poem of the best Poet," and Montaigne thought it the most highly finished work in all of poetry, Virgil's song of the earth has never won as many readers as has his Aeneid, and at present it is the subject of more debate among classicists than perhaps any other poem in Latin. Using a Jungian approach, this book draws on the new commentaries in English as well as on the work of the great German Virgilians of the past, and is written in the eloquent, accessible, and personal style for which its author has become known. It outlines clearly the literary and historical background of the poem, discusses the sound of Virgil's hexameters, and treats each of the four georgics in detail, with special emphasis on the concluding myth of Orpheus. The most baffling of all Latin poems is shown in these pages to be Virgil's gift to Augustus, the most powerful man in the world as the salvational leader of the renewed Roman state, telling him what he must know about nature and about human nature if he is to rule the world well.

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State University of New York Press

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1438410336

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Fathers and Sons in Virgil's Aeneid

Tum Genitor Natum

By: M. Owen Lee

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Fathers and Sons in Virgil's Aeneid

Tum Genitor Natum

By: M. Owen Lee

In this book, M. Owen Lee provides a comprehensive narrative summary of Virgil's Aeneid and a personal account of his experience with the epic poem. Noting that Virgil is the writer most Latinists read early, live with, and often come to love late, Lee expresses a clear devotion to the poet's work and relates how it has touched him throughout his life. While most criticism of the Aeneid makes a distinction between what critics say and what an individual may respond to, Lee takes a unique approach by analyzing the epic story from his own point of view. He not only explores the extensive Virgilian tradition, but also looks at the work of other poets, as well as philosophers, artists, composers, and filmmakers in order to better understand the Aeneid. Lee concludes that Virgil's poem, with its unavailing fathers and dutiful sons, its ineffably sad view of a failed humanity and a flawed universe, still touches hearts and, in ways Virgil could not have foreseen, still affects human lives.

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1438410301

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Wagner: Terrible Man & His Truthful Art

Wagner: Terrible Man & His Truthful Art

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Wagner

Father Lee's Opera Quiz Book

Father Lee's Opera Quiz Book

Wagner and the Wonder of Art

Wagner and the Wonder of Art

Virgil as Orpheus

Virgil as Orpheus

Fathers and Sons in Virgil's Aeneid

Fathers and Sons in Virgil's Aeneid

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