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Tables of Contents for Rites of Spring
Chapter/Section Title
Page #
Page Count
Map of the Western Front
xi
Preface
xiii
Prologue: Venice
1
8
ACT ONE
Paris
9
46
Vision
9
1
May 29, 1913
10
6
Le Theatre Des Champs-Elysees
16
5
Diaghilev and the Ballets Russes
21
12
Rebellion
33
6
Confrontation and Liberation
39
5
Audience
44
6
Scandal as Success
50
5
Berlin
55
40
Ver Sacrum
55
9
Overture
64
6
Technique
70
3
Capital
73
3
Kultur
76
4
Culture and Revolt
80
10
War as Culture
90
5
In Flanders' Fields
95
44
A Corner of a Foreign Field
95
3
Guns of August
98
11
Peace on Earth
109
6
The Reason Why
115
13
Victorian Synthesis
128
3
Is There Honey Still For Tea?
131
8
ACT TWO
Rites of War
139
31
Battle Ballet
139
3
Themes
142
13
Transvaluation
155
15
Reason in Madness
170
22
Theirs Was Not to Reason Why
170
6
Duty
176
16
Sacred Dance
192
16
War God
192
10
Congregation
202
6
Journey to the Interior
208
33
War as Art
208
7
Art as Form
215
8
Art and Morality
223
4
Avant-Garde
227
14
ACT THREE
Night Dancer
241
34
The New Christ
242
5
Star
247
5
Lest We Forget
252
9
Itinerary and Symbol
261
6
New Worlds and Old
267
4
Associations
271
4
Memory
275
25
War Boom
275
2
Life of Death
277
8
Fame
285
13
Cloud Juggler
298
2
Spring Without End
300
35
Germany, Awake!
300
5
Victim Hero
305
6
Art as Life
311
4
Myth as Reality
315
10
``Es Ist Ein Fruhling Ohne Ende!''
325
10
Acknowledgments
335
2
Notes
337
30
Selected Sources
367
4
Index
371