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Wagner, Nietzsche, Thomas Mann
Aus dem Inhalt: D. Borchmeyer: Wagner, Nietzsche, Thomas Mann und das Konzept einer ubernationalen Kultur - M. Neumann: Von den Strahlen der Sonne und dem Zauber der Nacht. Mozart - Wagner - Thomas Mann - R. Wimmer: Richard Wagner in Thomas Manns Doktor Faustus - H.R. Vaget: Zur musikgeschichtlichen Codierung in Thomas Manns Doktor Faustus - H. Maier: Mensch und Ubermensch. Nietzsche und das Christentum - M. Ferrari-Zumbini: Anmerkungen zum Thema: Nietzsche und der real existierende Antisemitismus - T.J. Reed: Ethische Ansatze beim Nietzscheaner Thomas Mann - H. Kurzke: Nietzsche in den Betrachtungen eines Unpolitischen - W. Frizen: Fausts Tod in Venedig - H. Lehnert: Historischer Horizont und Fiktionalitat in Thomas Manns Der Tod in Venedig - R. Bauer: Der Unpolitische und die Decadence - Helmut Koopmann: Lotte in Amerika, Thomas Mann in Weimar - I. Jens: Thomas Manns Brief an Walter Ulbricht - M. Dierks: Arthur Schopenhauer - Thomas Mann - Thomas Pynchon - H. Wysling: Macht und Ohnmacht des Narziss. Hermann Burgers Zauberberg
Thomas Mann's World
A comprehensive reevaluation of Thomas Mann
The Dangers of Interpretation
First published in 1996. This comparative study investigates thematic and technical similarities in the works of the two authors who shared a cultural heritage and achieved comparable status in their separate literary traditions. Drawing upon theories by Bloom, Bakhtin, and Lacan, the book examines ways in which Henry James and Thomas Mann treat the creative artist and analyze the creative and interpretive processes in their fiction. The texts covered range from early works to their great modern novels: The GoldenBowland Doctor Faustus To a great extent, the similarities between the works stem from the authors' preoccupation with artistic responsibility. Adopting Bloom's claim that the creative activity is an interpretive one, and that the reader, as well as the writer, interprets a text into being the book also investigates the reader's responsibility in confronting the dilemmas challenging James' and Mann's artist figures. Such challenges are "the dangers of interpretation" discussed in this book. Index. Bibliography.
The Critical Response to Musil's The Man Without Qualities
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Thomas Mann's Joseph and His Brothers
A study of Mann's novel tetralogy of the 1930s that stresses its relationship to three key essays by Mann.
Changing Perceptions of Thomas Mann's Doctor Faustus
Ever since its appearance in 1947, Thomas Mann's novel Doctor Faustus has generated heated reactions among critics. Whereas initial ideological differences stemming from the Cold War and the division of Germany have abated following the reunification of 1990, diverse opinions and controversies persist about Mann's daring treatment of the Faust theme. These include such topics as the political stance of the author and the historical dimensions of the novel; the biographical and autobiographical and backgrounds of the workespecially in light of the subsequent publication of Mann's diaries and private notebooks; the writer's sexual and psychological proclivities; the thorny issues of montage, c...
