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Author : Thomas Mann
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 1975
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:1101945295
Author : Thomas Mann
Publisher : Random House
Page : 368 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2017-11-30
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781473559387
An extraordinary collection of stories from the winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature - the title story, one of Mann's most political, explores the rise of facism by way of a mysterious magician in a small Italian village. Mann's short stories explore his abiding interest in the split nature of humanity and the discordance of the world it inhabits. In 'A Man and his Dog', domestic tempests are symbols of the muddle of humanity. In 'The Black Swan', the demands of intellect clash with physical desires. And in 'Mario and the Magician' a young family on holiday in Italy encounters a creepy entertainer: Cipolla, a hypnotist with a fascist-like will to control his audience. Written between 1918 and 1953, this collection shows the literary development of one of Germany's most important writers.
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:184812689
Author : Thomas Mann
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 1934
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:734077360
Author : Thomas Mann
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 1975
Category : German Short Stories (English)
ISBN : 0140183566
Author : Thomas Mann
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 152 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 1930
Category : German fiction
ISBN : IND:32000003235852
Author : Thomas Mann
Publisher : Wildside Press LLC
Page : 529 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2023-04-13
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781667602912
This volumes includes eight stories by Thomas Mann: Death in Venice Tonio Kröger Mario and the Magician Disorder and Early Sorrow A Man and his Dog The Blood of the Walsungs Tristan Felix Krull
Author : Thomas Mann
Publisher : A&C Black
Page : 360 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 1999-01-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0826409709
Thomas Mann (1875-1955) won the Nobel Prize for literature in 1929. This is a collection of his shorter works. "Death in Venice," later filmed by Lucion Visconti starring Dirk Bogarde, was published in 1911. It is a poetic meditation on art and beauty, where the dying composer Aschenbach (modelled on Gustav Mahler) becomes fixated by the young boy Tadzio. The other stories are: "Tonio Kroger"; the collection entitled "Tristan"; "The Blood of the Walsungs"; "Mario the Magician"; and "The Tables of the Law." A number of essays are also included.>
Author : Thomas Thomas Mann
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 52 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2021-07-25
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9798537732785
Stage magic consists of improbable feats for which other practitioners may find explanations. The extraordinary quality of this story is the manner in which the author recounts the stages by which individual spectators, much of the audience, and eventually the narrator himself seem to fall under the magician's spell. Lengthy descriptive passages preface each of Cipolla's challenges; increasingly the narrator refers to more abstract problems of volition and self-control. The atmosphere is conveyed by repeated references to the audience's reactions, from disbelief to laughter to applause, and ultimately to horror. The oral sparring that precedes each test of will is reproduced at length: Peculiar features of the magician's speech, the use of quaint south Italian dialect among the audience, and Cipolla's jibes at slow and unresponsive spectators highlight the dialectical tension that develops more and more. Palpable periods of silence, when the audience is breathlessly enthralled by the magician's performance, are interspersed with descriptions of the magician's piercing hypnotic eyes and the rhythmic crackle of his whip through the air to ensure obedience. Eventually the narrator himself can only present his impressions; at some points he loses track of the precise sequence of events as he becomes transfixed by the trial of wills on the stage.
Author : Geoff Boucher
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2021-06-03
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781501344077
Although Habermas has written about the cultural role of literature and about literary works, he has not systematically articulated a literary-critical method as a component of either communicative reason or post-metaphysical thinking. Habermas and Literature brings Habermasian concepts and categories into contact with aesthetic and cultural theories in and around the Frankfurt School, and beyond. Its central claim is that Habermas' contribution to literary and cultural criticism is the concept of literary rationality and the notion that literature performs a key role in the formation of the modern social imaginary. Habermas and Literature maintains that literary works have two faces discursive intervention in the public sphere and personal integration of imaginative disclosures that depend upon two modalities of literary reception: critique and identification. It develops the resulting literary theory through detailed discussion of the theories advanced by Habermas, followed in each case by synthetic and reconstructive argumentation that brings the framework of communicative reason into dialogue with literary methods, aesthetic theories and psychoanalytic categories. It does so through close engagement with debates around aesthetic rationality, world disclosure, social imaginaries, post-secular society and the utopian demand for happiness articulated by artworks. In the process, the Habermasian position is critically reconstructed when necessary, with reference to psychoanalytic and literary theories, and tested, in relation to demanding fiction and popular works.
Author : Thomas Mann
Publisher : Random House
Page : 624 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2017-11-30
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781446484449
Discover Mann's Nobel Prizewinning semi-autobiographical and sweeping family epic. The Buddenbrook clan is everything you'd expect of a nineteenth-century German merchant family - wealthy, esteemed, established. Four generations later, a tide of twentieth-century modernism has gradually disintegrated the bourgeois values on which the Buddenbrooks built their success. In this, Mann's first novel, his astounding, semi-autobiographical family epic, he portrays the transition of genteel Germanic stability to a very modern uncertainty. 'Perhaps the first great novel of the 20th century' New York Times
Author : Kathleen Starck
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Page : 220 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2014-07-24
Category : History
ISBN : 9781443864824
Political institutions and practices such as the state, parliament, citizenship and nationality, the vote, the military, and the making and implementation of laws have traditionally been treated as if they were un-gendered and guided exclusively by objective reasoning and rationality. Rationality and reason, though, have been habitually ascribed to masculinity, a fact which has often been ignored in favour of the apparent gender-inclusiveness of the realm of politics. In contrast to this view, this book explores the interdependence of the construction of masculinities, on the one hand, and the emerging, maintenance, and modification of concepts such as the state, citizenship, nationality and nationalism, democracy and militarism on the other. Illustrating the great amount of research activity in the field of political masculinities, the book offers many perspectives in its attempt to shed light on different modes of representing and constructing political masculinities across time and space. Findings from the fields of political science, history, media studies, literature, and film studies, as well as cultural studies, encourage an interdisciplinary debate of political masculinities in Europe and the United States from the nineteenth to the twenty-first century.
Author : George Ferzoco
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 277 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2020-07-09
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781351151108
Since Ovid, the concept of metamorphosis has been an irresistible temptation for writers, not only as a metaphor for shifting personal identity but as a way of exploring ideas of cultural and political transition. The essays in this volume show how authors from Ovid, Chaucer, and Shakespeare to Thomas Mann, Karen Blixen, and 20th-century science fiction writers, have used this pervasive concept to raise fundamental questions about the nature and agency of radical change. Among the broad topics addressed are how shifts in scientific understanding intersect with and even effect transformations in literary expression; the differing values attached to the language of metamorphosis over time; and the connection between these values and structures of power, particularly gender relations. In addition to the editors, the contributors are Darko Suvin, Alessandro Perutelli, Elsa Linguanti, Douglas Burnham, Enrico Giaccherini, Lia Pacinotti, Michael St John, Rocco Coronato, Silvia Bruti, Elisabetta Cori, Judith Rorai Milanesi, Catherine Burgass, Luca Biagiotti, Stefania Magnoni, Daniel Weavis, Julian North, Ashley Chantler, Martin Halliwell, Patrick Quinn, Roberta Ferrari, Silvia Bigliazzi, and Nicoletta Caputo.
Author : M. Halliwell
Publisher : Springer
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2001-09-12
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780230502734
Modernism and Morality discusses the relationship between artistic and moral ideas in European and American literary modernism. Rather than reading modernism as a complete rejection of social morality, this study shows how early twentieth-century writers like Conrad, Faulkner, Gide, Kafka, Mann and Stein actually devised new aesthetic techniques to address ethical problems. By focusing on a range of decadent, naturalist, avant-garde and expatriate writers between 1890 and the late 1930s this book reassesses the moral trajectory of transatlantic fiction.
Author : Maria Pierri
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 306 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2022-11-30
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 9781000755206
Sigmund Freud and The Forsyth Case uses newly discovered primary sources to investigate one of Sigmund Freud’s most mysterious clinical experiences, the Forsyth case. The book details Pierri’s attempts to recover the lost original case notes, which are published here for the first time, to identify the patient involved and to set the case into the broader frame of Freud’s work. Maria Pierri begins with a preliminary illustration of the case, its historical context, and how it connects to Freud’s interests in "thought-transmission," or telepathy. The author illustrates the possibility of a psychoanalytic interpretation of the transference and countertransference elements potentially conveyed by certain "magical" coincidences during the analysis, introducing the reader to a psychopathology of everyday life of the setting. The book also explores Freud’s further investigations into thought transmission, focusing on a meeting of the Secret Committee in October 1919 and his clinical work with his own daughter Anna. Sigmund Freud and The Forsyth Case features supplementary historical materials, adding valuable insight to the context and meaning of the case. It will be essential reading for psychoanalysts in practice and in training, as well as academics and scholars of psychoanalytic studies, spirituality, and the history of psychology. It is complemented by Occultism and the Origins of Psychoanalysis: Freud, Ferenczi and the Challenge of Thought Transference.