Wagner and Tolkien
Wagner and Tolkien: Mythmakers investigates the relationship between the works of J.R.R. Tolkien and Richard Wagner. It was published as No. 25 in the Cormarë Series.
Contents
- Introduction: The Master and the Professor - Wagner and Tolkien
- Part One, Two Round Rings
- — Chapter 1, A Conspiracy Unmasked?
- — — 1.1. A Ring of Power
- — — 1.2. Two round rings
- — — 1.3. How well did Tolkien know Wagner?
- — Chapter 2, Searching for Sources
- — — 2.1. A list of similarities
- — — 2.2. 'Faint and disparate echoes'
- — — 2.3. Common sources
- — Chapter 3, What has it got in its pocketses?
- — — 3.1. No, Birzer / Bratman / Spear / Müller / Scott Rohan / Ridpath
- — — 3.2. Yes, Hillard / Shippey / Haymes / Bayreuth and sundry / Ross, Kasper, and sex / The racism card, Schwartz & Arvidsson / Hate-speak
- — — 3.3. Deliberately, Hall / O'Donoghue / Spengler / 'Thief Tolkien'
- — Chapter 4, Other Approaches
- — — 4.1. The evils of power Werner / Luke, and Ross again / What power? / Views of evil / Fear of the end
- — — 4.2. A poisoned imagination? Chism and the poisoned sources / From myth to history
- — Chapter 5, Conclusion
- Part Two, Myths, Fairy Tales and Endings
- — Chapter 6, Romanticism and Mythmaking
- — — 6.1. Introduction
- — — 6.2. National myths Tolkien in England / Wagner in Germany
- — — 6.3. Modern myth
- — Chapter 7, Nature and its Defilement
- — Chapter 8, A World too Much? Fantasy versus (Stage) Drama
- — — 8.1. Myth and drama, Dramatic narrative / Faërian drama / Visual representation
- — — 8.2. Fantasy drama
- — — 8.3. Music, words and the invisible stage
- — Chapter 9, Tragedy, Elegy, Eucatastrophe
- — — 9.1. Tragedy versus comedy
- — — 9.2. Revolution versus restoration
- — — 9.3. The end of myth
- — — 9.4. The end of the world?
- — Chapter 10, Conclusion
- Part Three, The Amateur and the Professional
- — Chapter 11, Sources and Resources
- — — 11.1. Pure and adulterated northernness
- — — 11.2. Sigurd versus Siegfried
- — Chapter 12, Language
- — — 12.1. Words, grammar and syntax, Tolkien's archaisms / Attack and defence / Wagner's archaisms / Wordplay / Philological jests / Kennings
- — — 12.2. Alliterations, Stave rhyme rediscovered / Some technicalities / Wagner's verse / Tolkien's development / Rhythm and patterns
- — — 12.3. Proverbiality
- — Chapter 13, Narrative Elements
- — — 13.1. The Ring and the Legend – correspondences, Introduction / From the beginning to Ragnarök / Baldr / The solar hero and the Saviour / Odin and Wotan
- — — 13.2. The Ring and the Legend – differences, Assorted differences / Characteristic choices / Half-brother and full brothers
- — — 13.3. Solving a conundrum: The ring at the core, The sources / The botched tradition / The ring of fire / Did they do it?
- — Chapter 14, Conclusion
- Afterword
Referencias
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