Liebestod
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| ''[[Liebestod]]'' ([[German language|German]], "Love's Death") is the title of a [[song]] from the [[opera]] ''[[Tristan und Isolde]]'' by [[Richard Wagner]]. | ''[[Liebestod]]'' ([[German language|German]], "Love's Death") is the title of a [[song]] from the [[opera]] ''[[Tristan und Isolde]]'' by [[Richard Wagner]]. | ||
| - | As a literary term ''liebestod'' (from German ''[[Liebe]]'', [[love]] and ''tod'', [[death]]) it refers to the [[literary theme|theme]] of '''erotic death''' or '''love death''' meaning the two lovers' [[consummation]] of their love in death or after death. | + | As a literary term ''liebestod'' (from German ''[[Liebe]]'', [[love]] and ''tod'', [[death]]) it refers to the [[literary theme|theme]] of '''erotic death''' or '''love death''' meaning the two lovers' [[consummation]] of their love in death or after death. (see [[hereafter]]) |
| Two-sided examples include ''[[Tristan und Isolde]]'', ''[[Romeo and Juliet]]'', ''[[Axel (play)|Axel]]'' and to some degree ''[[ Wuthering Heights]]'', one-sided examples'' [[Porphyria's Lover]]'' and ''[[The Sorrows of Young Werther]]''. | Two-sided examples include ''[[Tristan und Isolde]]'', ''[[Romeo and Juliet]]'', ''[[Axel (play)|Axel]]'' and to some degree ''[[ Wuthering Heights]]'', one-sided examples'' [[Porphyria's Lover]]'' and ''[[The Sorrows of Young Werther]]''. | ||
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Liebestod (German, "Love's Death") is the title of a song from the opera Tristan und Isolde by Richard Wagner.
As a literary term liebestod (from German Liebe, love and tod, death) it refers to the theme of erotic death or love death meaning the two lovers' consummation of their love in death or after death. (see hereafter)
Two-sided examples include Tristan und Isolde, Romeo and Juliet, Axel and to some degree Wuthering Heights, one-sided examples Porphyria's Lover and The Sorrows of Young Werther.
The joint suicide of Heinrich von Kleist and lover Henriette Vogel is often associated with the liebestod theme.
Literature
- Elisabeth Bronfen, Liebestod und Femme fatale. Der Austausch sozialer Energien zwischen Oper, Literatur und Film, Frankfurt am Main: Suhrkamp 2004. ISBN 3-518-12229-0
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