Wagner: The Terrible Man and His Truthful Art

by Mark Owen Lee

Book Overview

How is it possible for a seriously flawed human being to produce art that is good, true, and beautiful? Why is the art of Richard Wagner, a very imperfect man, important and even indispensable to us?

In this volume, Father Owen Lee ventures an answer to those questions by way of a figure in Sophocles - the hero Philoctetes. Gifted by his god with a bow that would always shoot true to the mark and indispensable to his fellow Greeks, he...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0802082912
• ISBN13: 9780802082916
• Release Date: September 1999
• Publisher: University of Toronto Press
• Length: 96 Pages
• Weight: 0.35 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.3" x 5.4" x 8.5"