The Wound That Will Never Heal

<p><span style=color: rgba(51 51 51 1)>Paul Brian Heise's </span><em style=color: rgba(51 51 51 1)>The Wound That Will Never Heal</em><span style=color: rgba(51 51 51 1)> is an original allegorical reading of Richard Wagner's epic music drama </span><em style=color: rgba(51 51 51 1)>The Ring of the Nibelung</em><span style=color: rgba(51 51 51 1)>. Heise challenges the standard view that Wagner merely dramatizes the conflict between love and power and demonstrates instead that his greatest work is an allegory exploring humanity's longing for transcendent value and that quest's paradoxical establishment of a science-based secular society. By employing a more extensive analysis of primary evidence than any prior interpretation</span><em style=color: rgba(51 51 51 1)> The Wound That Will Never Heal </em><span style=color: rgba(51 51 51 1)>is the first interpretation to propose and sustain a global and conceptually coherent account of the entire </span><em style=color: rgba(51 51 51 1)>Ring</em><span style=color: rgba(51 51 51 1)>.</span></p>