120 Pages
by
Routledge
120 Pages
by
Routledge
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The desire to voice the artistic revelation of the truth of a precarious, multi-faceted, yet integrated self lies behind much of Szymanowski's work. This self is projected through the voices of deities who speak languages of love. The unifying figure is Eros, who may be embodied as Dionysus, Christ, Narcissus or Orpheus, and the gospel he proclaims tells of the resurrection and freedom of the... Read more
Contents: Preface; Introduction: Mythic and erotic voices of the authorial subject; Schopenhauerian pessimism, the Promethean voice, Apocalyptic climax; Homoeroticism, madness and Orphic song; Narcissus, the Siren and Dionysus: calls of seduction in King Roger; After King Roger: Eros, Slavonic-Sufistic melody and Pan-Europeanism; Bibliography; Index.
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Stephen Downes
