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Wagner, Nietzsche and the Clash of Ideals: Art, Philosophy and the Search for Meaning
As an “outsider” music major, my earliest connections with Wagner were purely literary. Wagner – as the villain – came to my attention when I first encountered Nietzsche some 27 years ago. The first thing I came into contact with was “Thus Spoke Zarathustra” in Chutunan’s translation. In order to know more about the author, I found all the translations of Nietzsche I could find in the library, from “The Birth of Tragedy” to “The Will to Power” “wait. It’s unfair – because the composer doesn’t have a chance to speak. Wagner, too, remained an accused silencer until his graduate studies in literature and arts in the mid-1990s. I have…
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The Aesthetic Thoughts of the Turtledove and the Thrush
I have carefully observed two kinds of birds and found that they are very aware of beauty. Turtle doves love to rest on the roof and make melodious calls. They stop there either in groups or alone, patiently singing and reading an old song (perhaps an ancestral family motto) over and over again, and sometimes they spend the whole afternoon doing this. On some roofs, they squat for a while, After scribbling a few times, it turned around and flew away, and rarely came here again. why is that? Through comparison, I know the reason: the roofs they don’t want to stay for a long time are mostly those rough…
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Analyzing the Complex Colors of Controversy in Nabokov’s Lolita
01 Nabokov invested a lot of “big material” The novel “Lolita” is written in the first person, and it is a confession written in prison by Humbert Humbert, a middle-aged man who immigrated to the United States from Europe. His unforgettable love for his female companion Annabelle in his youth made him obsessed with girls. Girls aged 9-14 are all “fairies”, “goblins” and “nymphets” in his eyes. The personable and economical Humbert came to Ramsdale, a small town in New England, USA, and rented at the home of Mrs. Charlotte Haze. He fell in love with the landlord’s 12-year-old daughter Lolita immediately. . The landlady quickly fell in love with…
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Do You Have to Read a Lot to Write Well? The Importance of Aesthetics and Sympathy in Literature Education
Do you have to read a lot to write well? The answer is obvious. of course not. This is an overly categorical question. So the more common expression is this: My child likes to read, why can’t writing go up? Asking questions like this points to a crack in this logic, that is to say, liking reading should help writing, but now writing is not good, there must be something wrong. Once you think about it, you will find the fragility of this problem. There are too many rhetorical questions that can follow. Does the child really enjoy reading? Or is it just a sign of academics, or even of…
