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 | #2537551 in Books |  1999-11-29 | Original language:English | PDF # 1 |  9.21 x.50 x6.14l,.71 | File type: PDF | 224 pages

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||40 of 44 people found the following review helpful.| The misrepresentation is mainly by omission|By Laon|David Levin's book _Richard Wagner, Fritz Lang and the Nibelungen_ centers around the allegation that Mime in Wagner's opera _Siegfried_, and Alberich in Fritz Lang's 1920 film _Die Nibelungen_ (both dwarfs), are antisemitic representations.
Levin's arguments for these twin accusations will cause jaw-dropping disbelief| |"This is a smart and thoroughly absorbing book. Its focus is not on a single genre but on the uses that have been made of the Nibelung legend to help shape German national and cultural identity.... A subtly argued study of how the works under consideration 're

This highly original book draws on narrative and film theory, psychoanalysis, and musicology to explore the relationship between aesthetics and anti-Semitism in two controversial landmarks in German culture. David Levin argues that Richard Wagner's opera cycle Der Ring des Nibelungen and Fritz Lang's 1920s film Die Nibelungen creatively exploit contrasts between good and bad aesthetics to address the question of what is German and what is not. He shows t...

You can specify the type of files you want, for your gadget.Richard Wagner, Fritz Lang, and the Nibelungen   |  David J. Levin.Not only was the story interesting, engaging and relatable, it also teaches lessons.

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