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Author : Ilsedore B. Jonas
Publisher : University : University of Alabama Press
Page : 216 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 1979
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : UOM:39015002302142
Author : Hannelore Mundt
Publisher : Univ of South Carolina Press
Page : 286 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 1570035377
Understanding Thomas Mann offers a comprehensive guide to the novels, short stories, novellas, and nonfiction of one of the most renowned and prolific German writers. In close readings, Hannelore Mundt illustrates how Mann's masterly prose captures both his time and the complexities of human existence with a unique blend of humor, compassion, irony, and ambiguity.
Author : Alba della Fazia Amoia
Publisher : Peter Lang Pub Incorporated
Page : 196 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 1990
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 0820410918
Offers the translated text of the Italian adaptation of Thomas Mann's "Fiorenza," which reconstructs the conflict between Lorenzo de Medici and Girolamo Savonarola in 15th-century Florence.
Author : Thomas Mann
Publisher : Vintage
Page : 412 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2010-11-03
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780307772923
Eight complex stories illustrative of the author's belief that "a story must tell itself," highlighted by the high art style of the famous title novella.
Author : Thomas Mann
Publisher : urzeni yayınevi
Page : 104 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2017-07-04
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9786057941701
One of the most famous literary works of the 20th century, the novella “Death in Venice” embodies themes that preoccupied Thomas Mann (1875–1955) in much of his work; the duality of art and life, the presence of death and disintegration in the midst of existence, the connection between love and suffering, and the conflict between the artist and his inner self. Mann’s handling of these concerns in this story of a middle-aged German writer, torn by his passion for a Polish youth met on holiday in Venice, resulted in a work of great psychological intensity and tragic power.
Author : Harold Bloom
Publisher : Infobase Publishing
Page : 117 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781438116327
Presents a brief biography of Thomas Mann, thematic and structural analysis of his works, critical views, and an index of themes and ideas.
Author : Hermann Kurzke
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 600 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2002-09
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780691070698
Kurze's book provides fresh and sometimes startling insights into both famous and little-known episodes in Mann's life and into his writing--the only realm in which he ever felt free. It shows how love, death, religion, and politics were not merely themes in "Buddenbrooks, The Magic Mountain, " but were woven into the fabric of his existence. 40 photos.
Author : Thomas Mann
Publisher : Bantam Classics
Page : 418 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 1988-09-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780553213331
This superb translation of Death in Venice and six other stories by Thomas Mann is a tour de force, deserving to be the definitive text for English-speaking readers. These seven stories represent Mann’s early writing career and a level of literary quality Mann himself despaired of ever again matching. In these stories he began to grapple with themes that were to recur throughout his work. In Little Herr Friedemann, a character’s carefully structured way of life is suddenly threatened by an unexpected sexual passion. In Gladius Dei, puritanical intellect clashes with beauty. In Tristan, Mann presents an ironic and comic account of the tension between an artist and bourgeois society. All seven of these stories are accomplished and memorable, but it is Death in Venice that truly forms the centerpiece of the collection. The themes that Mann weaves through the shorter pieces come to a climax in this stunning novella, one of the most hauntingly magnificent tales of art and self-destruction ever written.
Author : Rodney Symington
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Page : 370 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2011-09-22
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781443834032
Thomas Mann’s novel The Magic Mountain presents a panorama of European society in the first two decades of the 20th century and depicts the philosophical and metaphysical dilemmas facing people in the modern age. In the years leading up to the First World War, the fundamental elements of human nature were thrown into sharp relief by the political tensions that resulted in the ultimate metaphor for the innate destructiveness of humankind: the War itself. If such a war is the true expression of human tendencies, what hope is there for the future? Through the figure of the main character of the novel, Thomas Mann explores the alternative philosophies of life available to human beings in the modern age, and invites the reader to undertake a personal odyssey of discovery, with a view to adopting a positive approach in an era that seems to offer no clear-cut answers. This book is a comprehensive commentary on Thomas Mann’s seminal novel, one of the key literary artefacts of the 20th century. The author has taken upon himself the task of explaining all the references and allusions contained in the novel, and of providing readers who know little or no German with enough explanatory comment to enable them to understand the novel and extract the maximum reading pleasure from it.
Author : Todd Kontje
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 153 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2011
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780521767927
A succinct introduction to the life and works of Thomas Mann, addressing both his literary texts and his personal life.
Author : Michael Maar
Publisher : Verso Books
Page : 161 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2019-03-19
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781786635778
Over the last twenty years, much critical discussion of Thomas Mann has highlighted his homosexuality. This not only is presented as a dynamic underlying Mann’s creative work, but also is the supposed reason for the theme of guilt and redemption that grew ever stronger in Mann’s fiction, and for his panic in 1933 that his early diaries would fall into the hands of the Nazis. Michael Maar mounts a devastating forensic challenge to this consensus: Mann was remarkably open about his sexual orientation, which he saw as no reason for guilt. But sexuality in Mann’s work is inextricably bound up with an eruption of violence. Maar pursues this trail through Mann’s writings and traces its origins back to Mann’s second visit to Italy, during which the Devil appeared to him in Palestrina. Something happened to the twenty-one-year-old Thomas Mann in Naples that marked him for life with a burdensome sense of guilt...but what exactly was it?
Author : Martin A. Ruehl
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 343 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2015-10-15
Category : History
ISBN : 9781107036994
Explores German engagement with the Italian Renaissance in the decades from German unification to the Weimar republic.
Author : Richard A. Block
Publisher : Wayne State University Press
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : Art
ISBN : 0814332692
Wearied by his life as an administrator at the Duke's court in Weimar, in 1786 Johann Wolfgang von Goethe departed unannounced in the middle of the night for what had been the destination of his imagination since childhood: Italy. His extended stay there dramatically affected his views of art, architecture, prose, poetry, and science. When he returned to Germany and Weimar, Goethe's experiences translated into his life and work in ways that influenced countless others as they developed Germany's own brand of high culture. The Spell of Italy: Vacation, Magic, and the Attraction of Goethe tracks the peculiar space Italy occupies in the cultural consciousness of German writers by reconsidering the Italian journeys of Goethe and Winckelmann and the legacy of those journeys in the works of Heine, Nietzsche, Freud, Mann, Carossa, and Bachmann. Author Richard Block contests previous assumptions about Italy as a place to encounter classical culture and creative rebirth. His study examines the degree to which Germany's literary and cultural traditions appropriated a phantasmic Italy, showing how Winckelmann's art history and Goethe's Italian journey predisposed later writers to search for an aesthetic ideal in Italy that did not exist, and how their search for this absent ideal eventually resulted in disillusionment and deception. Building on previous work on Goethe, literary theory, and cultural history, The Spell of Italy offers compelling new ways of understanding Germany's fascination with Italy from the eighteenth century to its troubled political history of the twentieth century.
Author : Tobias Boes
Publisher : Cornell University Press
Page : 376 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2019-11-15
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781501745003
In Thomas Mann's War, Tobias Boes traces how the acclaimed and bestselling author became one of America's most prominent anti-fascists and the spokesperson for a German cultural ideal that Nazism had perverted. Thomas Mann, winner of the 1929 Nobel Prize in literature and author of such world-renowned novels as Buddenbrooks and The Magic Mountain, began his self-imposed exile in the United States in 1938, having fled his native Germany in the wake of Nazi persecution and public burnings of his books. Mann embraced his role as a public intellectual, deftly using his literary reputation and his connections in an increasingly global publishing industry to refute Nazi propaganda. As Boes shows, Mann undertook successful lecture tours of the country and penned widely-read articles that alerted US audiences and readers to the dangers of complacency in the face of Nazism's existential threat. Spanning four decades, from the eve of World War I, when Mann was first translated into English, to 1952, the year in which he left an America increasingly disfigured by McCarthyism, Boes establishes Mann as a significant figure in the wartime global republic of letters.
Author : Thomas Mann,Heinrich Mann
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 480 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 1998-01-01
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0520072782
Presents the correspondence of Thomas and Heinrich Mann
