Death-Devoted Heart: Sex and the Sacred in Wagner's Tristan and Isolde

Death-Devoted Heart: Sex and the Sacred in Wagner's Tristan and Isolde

Volumn , Issue , 2010, Pages 1-246

  Scruton, Roger ^a  

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Author keywords

Erotic love; Forbidden love; Matilde wesendonck; Redemption; Religious meaning; Ritual sacrifice; Tragedy

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EID: 84919632301     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780195166910.001.0001     Document Type: Book

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