UID:
edocfu_9960117077802883
Format:
1 online resource (xviii, 345 pages) :
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digital, PDF file(s).
ISBN:
1-57113-639-8
Series Statement:
Studies in German literature, linguistics, and culture
Content:
Thomas Mann is among the greatest of German prose writers, and was the first German novelist to reach a wide English-speaking readership since Goethe. Novels such as Buddenbrooks, The Magic Mountain, and Doktor Faustus attest to his mastery of subtle, distanced irony, while novellas such as Death in Venice reveal him at the height of his mastery of language. In addition to fresh insights about these best-known works of Mann, this volume treats less-often-discussed works such as Joseph and His Brothers, Lotte in Weimar, and Felix Krull, as well as his political writings and essays. Mann himself was a paradox: his role as family-father was both refuge and façade; his love of Germany was matched by his contempt for its having embraced Hitler. While in exile during the Nazi period, he functioned as the prime representative of the "good" Germany in the fight against fascism, and he has often been remembered this way in English-speaking lands. But a new view of Mann is emerging half a century after his death: a view of him as one of the great writers of a modernity understood as extending into our 21st century. This volume provides sixteen essays by American and European specialists. They demonstrate the relevance of his writings for our time, making particular use of the biographical material that is now available.Contributors: Ehrhard Bahr, Manfred Dierks, Werner Frizen, Clayton Koelb, Helmut Koopmann, Wolfgang Lederer, Hannelore Mundt, Peter Pütz, Jens Rieckmann, Hans Joachim Sandberg, Egon Schwarz, and Hans Vaget.Herbert Lehnert is Research Professor, and Eva Wessell is lecturer in Humanities, both at the University of California, Irvine.
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Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 10 May 2017).
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""CONTENTS ""; ""FOREWORD ""; ""THOMAS MANN'S WORKS ""; ""LIST OF ABBREVIATIONS ""; ""INTRODUCTION ""; ""Thomas Mann's Beginnings and Buddenbrooks""; ""Art and Society in Thomas Mann's Early Novellas""; ""Love in Society: Thomas Mann's Early Stories""; """Death in Venice"""; """Mein 'Friedrich' - das ist was Anderes": Thomas Mann's Unwritten Novel about Frederick the Great, King of Prussia""; ""Magic and Reflections: Thomas Mann's The Magic Mountain and His War Essays""; ""Thomas Mann's "Autobiographical" Stories""; ""Joseph and His Brothers""; ""Lotte in Weimar""
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""Thomas Mann's Late Politics"""; ""German" Music and German Catastrophe: A Re-Reading of Doktor Faustus""; ""The Gaze of Love, Longing, and Desire in Thomas Mann's "The Transposed Heads" and "The Black Swan"""; ""Felix Krull""; ""Female Identities and Autobiographical Impulses in Thomas Mann's Work""; ""Betrayed or Not Betrayed: A Testament?""; ""Thomas Mann's Comedies""; ""NOTES ON THE CONTRIBUTORS ""; ""SELECT BIBLIOGRAPHY ""; ""INDEX ""
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English
Additional Edition:
ISBN 1-57113-219-8
Language:
English
DOI:
10.1515/9781571136398
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