SOURCE: Frye, Northrop. “The World as Music and Idea in Wagner's Parsifal.” Carleton Germanic Papers 12 (1984): 37-49.
In the following essay, Frye surveys the literary and mythological sources of Wagner's opera Parsifal, and associates the work's theme and music with the concepts of Arthur Schopenhauer's philosophy.
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