The Total Work of Art

List of Illustrations

List of Tables



Foreword

Celia Applegate



Acknowledgements



Introduction

Margaret Eleanor Menninger



PART I: FOUNDATIONS



Chapter 1. The Play's the Thing: Schiller, Wagner, and Gesamtkunstwerk

Nicholas Vazsonyi



Chapter 2. From the Gesamtkunstwerk to the Music Drama

Sanna Pederson



Chapter 3. Richard Wagner, Parsifal, and the Pursuit of Gesamtkunstwerk

Anthony J. Steinhoff



PART II: ARTICULATIONS



Chapter 4. Epic Gesamtkunstwerk

Joy H. Calico



Chapter 5. Gesamtkunstwerk, Gestaltung, and the Bauhaus Stage

Melissa Trimingham



Chapter 6. Exposing the Political Gesamtkunstwerk: Hanns Eisler's Nuit et Brouillard

Amy Lynn Wlodarski



Chapter 7. Reconciling the "Three Graceful Hellenic Sisters": Wagner, Dance, and "Song-Ballets", Set to Richard Strauss's Vier letzte Lieder

Wayne Heisler, Jr.



PART III: INSPIRATIONS



Chapter 8. The "Translucent (Not: Transparent)" Gesamtglaswerk

Jenny Anger



Chapter 9. Quiet Audience, Roaring Crowd: The Aesthetics of Sound and the Traces of Bayreuth in Kuhle Wampe and Triumph of the Will

Theodore F. Rippey



Chapter 10. The Will to Heal: Gesamtkunstwerk and Memorial Music since 1945

Julia Goodwin and Margaret Eleanor Menninger



Chapter 11. Consuming Voices: Musical Film and the Gesamtkunstwerk of Mass Culture

David Imhoof



Afterword: Gesamtkunstwerk as Epistemic Space

Kevin S. Amidon



Bibliography

Index