Books written by Nicholas Vazsonyi
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Elias Canetti's Counter-image of Society: Crowds, Power, Transformation
In analyses of Auto da Fe, Crowds and Power, and the aphorisms, the authors elucidate key aspects of Canetti's interrogation of human existence and human history across five thematic complexes: individual and social psychology, totalitarian ...
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Lukács Reads Goethe: From Aestheticism to Stalinism
Vazsonyi shows Lukács's evolving view of Goethe, examining how in the 1930's he was able to write enthusiastically about the poet, citing him as an ideal exponent of humanism, while simultaneously accepting and even condoning Stalinism.
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The Cambridge Companion to Wagner's Der Ring des Nibelungen
The volume ends with a history of notable stage productions from the world premiere in 1876 to the most recent stagings in Bayreuth and elsewhere.
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Richard Wagner: Self-Promotion and the Making of a Brand
This is the first study to examine the innovative ways in which Wagner made himself a celebrity, promoting himself using every means available: autobiography, journal articles, short stories, newspaper announcements, letters, even his ...
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The Cambridge Companion to Wagner's Der Ring des Nibelungen
On Myself and Other Princeton Lectures: An Annotated Edition Based on Mann's Lecture Typescripts, ed. James N. Bade. New York: Peter Lang. Mann, Thomas (1985). Pro and Contra Wagner, trans. A. Blunden, with an introduction by Erich ...
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Wagner's Meistersinger: Performance, History, Representation
Wagner did not initiate the gendered discourse of music . Instead he again reinscribes one this time developed by German music critics during the eighteenth century , which sought to create a distinctly German musical paradigm ...
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Wagner's Meistersinger: Performance, History, Representation
This volume examines the representation of German history in the opera and the way it has functioned in history through political appropriation and staging practice. in performance.
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The Cambridge Wagner Encyclopedia
From "absolute music" to "Zurich" and from "Theodor Adorno" to "Hermann Zumpe," the vividly-written entries of The Cambridge Wagner Encyclopedia have been contributed by recognized authorities and cover a comprehensive range of topics.
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Music Theater as Global Culture
Music Theater as Global Culture