The Wagnerian Land. Notes on the Role of Wagner’s Music in the Composition of «The Waste Land»
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Abstract
Focusing on the presence of Wagnerian texts, themes and characters in The Waste Land, attention is drawn to the different techniques of the Leitmotiv and Eliot’s constructive use of the Wagnerian legacy, transformed into a technique for assembling the shatterings of modernity
Keywords
- Eliot
- Wagner
- Music
- Poetry
- Leitmotiv
- Modernity
