Book Description
Pawel Huelle imagines the adventures of Hans Castorp from Thomas Mann's The Magic Mountain.
Author : Paweł Huelle
Publisher :
Page : 252 pages
File Size : 29,59 MB
Release : 2007
Category : Fiction
ISBN :
Pawel Huelle imagines the adventures of Hans Castorp from Thomas Mann's The Magic Mountain.
Author : Alexander Raviv
Publisher : LIT Verlag Münster
Page : 176 pages
File Size : 16,88 MB
Release : 2007
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 3825804453
No, we certainly do not forget Thomas Mann's manifestations of friendship for Jews and Judaism, which we can find in Thomas Mann's "non-fictional writings" (in fact these were originally interviews, lectures. speeches, radio broadcasts). And yet, the Jewish characters in Thomas Mann's novels are there, in their inexorable negativity, a negativity cutting across everything: the different periods in Thomas Mann's writing career, the themes of the novels in which they appear, the changes in Thomas Mann's political convictions, the historical events of the 20th century.
Author : Marina Van Zuylen
Publisher : Cornell University Press
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 30,7 MB
Release : 2005
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780801489860
'Monomania' explores the cultural prominence of the idée fixe in Western Europe during the 19th and 20th centuries. The author revives the term monomania to explore the therapeutic attributes of obsession.
Author : Sara Danius
Publisher : Cornell University Press
Page : 263 pages
File Size : 34,38 MB
Release : 2019-01-24
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 150172116X
In The Senses of Modernism, Sara Danius develops a radically new theoretical and historical understanding of high modernism. The author closely analyzes Thomas Mann's The Magic Mountain, Marcel Proust's Remembrance of Things Past, and James Joyce's Ulysses as narratives of the sweeping changes that affected high and low culture in the age of technological reproduction. In her discussion of the years from 1880 to 1930, Danius proposes that the high-modernist aesthetic is inseparable from a technologically mediated crisis of the senses. She reveals the ways in which categories of perceiving and knowing are realigned when technological devices are capable of reproducing sense data. Sparked by innovations such as chronophotography, phonography, radiography, cinematography, and technologies of speed, this sudden shift in perceptual abilities had an effect on all arts of the time.Danius explores how perception, notably sight and hearing, is staged in the three most significant modern novels in German, French, and British literature. The Senses of Modernism connects technological change and formal innovation to transform the study of modernist aesthetics. Danius questions the longstanding acceptance of a binary relationship between high and low culture and describes the complicated relationship between modernism and technology, challenging the conceptual divide between a technological culture and a more properly aesthetic one.
Author : Hannelore Mundt
Publisher : Univ of South Carolina Press
Page : 286 pages
File Size : 30,10 MB
Release : 2004
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781570035371
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 : Ernest Schonfield
Publisher : MHRA
Page : 214 pages
File Size : 43,68 MB
Release : 2008
Category : Art in literature
ISBN : 1905981058
Thomas Mann's Felix Krull, written between 1910-13 and continued (though never completed) in 1951-54, uses contemporary accounts of these figures as a starting-point from which to explore the aesthetics of society. The early Krull marks an important stage in Mann's development in a number of respects.In writing it, Mann acquired a more flexible conception of identity and a new understanding of the relation between artist and public. Krull also signals a deeper engagement with Goethe and a shift in Mann's work towards a more open treatment of sexuality. The novel presents art as being central to the development of the individual and to social interaction. While Krull is nominally a confidence man, he is more of a performance artist, a purveyor of beauty who relies upon the complicity of his audience. The later Krull takes up where Mann left off and continues the justification of art as an essential human activity. This study draws upon unpublished material in order to provide a comprehensive reading of Felix Krull. It examines the novel within the context of Mann's work as a whole, and, in doing so, it seeks to demonstrate the remarkable continuity of Mann's creative achievement.
Author : Rodney Symington
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Page : 370 pages
File Size : 23,66 MB
Release : 2011-09-22
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1443834033
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 : David Horton
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 259 pages
File Size : 41,88 MB
Release : 2013-04-11
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 1441182772
Thomas Mann owes his place in world literature to the dissemination of his works through translation. Indeed, it was the monumental success of the original English translations that earned him the title of 'the greatest living man of letters' during his years in American exile (1938-52). This book provides the first systematic exploration of the English versions, illustrating the vicissitudes of literary translation through a principled discussion of a major author. The study illuminates the contexts in which the translations were produced before exploring the transformations Mann's work has undergone in the process of transfer. An exemplary analysis of selected textual dimensions demonstrates the multiplicity of factors which impinge upon literary translation, leading far beyond the traditional preoccupation with issues of equivalence. Thomas Mann in English thus fills a gap both in translation studies, where Thomas Mann serves as a constant but ill-defined point of reference, and in literary studies, which has focused increasingly on the author's wider reception.
Author : Harry Slochower
Publisher : Wayne State University Press
Page : 376 pages
File Size : 48,2 MB
Release : 1970
Category : Myth in literature
ISBN : 9780814315118
Author : John Krapp
Publisher : Univ of South Carolina Press
Page : 246 pages
File Size : 17,24 MB
Release : 2002
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781570034480
Focusing on instances of moral pedagogy in novels by Thomas Mann, Albert Camus, Joseph Conrad, and Fyodor Dostoevsky, he suggests that literature uses an aesthetic portrayal of personal relations to introduce scenes of moral tension that illustrate the way ethical claims are made and validated."--BOOK JACKET.