A Pagan Spoiled: Sex and Character in Wagner's Parsifal

With an academic background in philosophy, Winterbourne has been writing extensively of late about 19th-century German composer Wagner, and is embarking on a conceptual reconstruction of early Germanic paganism. Here he characterizes Parsifal as a spiritual work in which the spirituality cannot be fixed to a single dogma such as Christianity. Distributed in the US by Associated University Presses. Annotation ©2003 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR