Edward A. Bortnichak and Paula M. Bortnichak, Wagner’s Voyage from ‘Der fliegende Holländer’ to ‘Parsifal’: A Reappraisal of the Importance of Marryat’s ‘The Phantom Ship’

 July 2011, Volume 5, Number 2, 4–19.

The relevance of modern multifactorial developmental psychology models to creativity will be the focus of this article in relation to their potential role in advancing Wagner scholarship. In particular, the landmark work of Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi on the Flow Theory of human development, and its application to creativity, provides an especially important construct to help us integrate the evidence to be presented on the web of influences in the creative process of Richard Wagner, and we will therefore return to this in some detail at the conclusion of the present paper.