Article: Chaos and Dancing Star: Wagner's Politics, Wagner's Legacy

Chaos and Dancing Star: Wagner's Politics, Wagner's Legacy by Roy Pateman University Press ofAmerica, 367pp. $47

There is a staggering amount of information in Roy Pateman's scholarly yet quirkily self-indulgent treatise on the politics and legacy of Richard Wagner. The English-born adjunct professor at UCLA seems to have read just about everything pertinent to Wagner in the English language, but his prolific knowledge is submerged in a sea of pretentious prose and academic gobbledygook that must daunt the most avid and learned Wagnerite. Just about every second sentence contains a citation within the text; there are hefty footnotes and a forty-six-page bibliography. Moreover, Pateman ...

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