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Title:
Wagner : the terrible man and his truthful art / M. Owen Lee.
Author:
Lee, M. Owen, 1930-
Publication Information:
Toronto : University of Toronto Press, ©1999.
Call Number:
ML410.W13 L44 1999
Abstract:
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.
ISBN:
9780802047212

9780802082916
Physical Description:
x, 102 pages ; 22 cm
General Note:
"The 1998 Larkin-Stuart lectures."
Contents:
1. Wagner and the Wound That Would Not Heal -- 2. Wagner's Influence: The First Hundred Years -- 3. You Use Works of Art to See Your Soul.
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