A Companion to Thomas Mann's Magic Mountain a Companion to Thomas Mann's Magic Mountain a Companion to Thomas Mann's Magic Mountain

Erscheinungsjahr 1999
ISBN: 978-1-57113-150-8
Verlag: CAMDEN HOUSE INC

Buch, Englisch, 270 Seiten, Format (B × H): 160 mm x 238 mm, Gewicht: 572 g

Reihe: Studies in German Literature Linguistics and Culture

Thomas Mann was the first writer since Goethe to attract a large international audience to stories written in German, bringing German fiction into the mainstream of European literature. His second major work, The Magic Mountain (1924), explores the heady intellectual culture of the chaotic and broken Germany that emerged from the First World War, and, along with the earlier Buddenbrooks, earned him a Nobel Prize for literature in 1929. Mann himself considered The Magic Mountain to be his greatest novel, and few in his own day doubted the preeminence of this modernist classic; however, many have argued that the age of literary modernism has passed. If this is so, how might we best understand Mann's masterpiece now?
Topics covered in this volume, which aims to provide both a survey of and new research into important aspects of the work, include Mann's comic vision, his homosexuality, his fraught attitude toward Jews, the place of his novel in the landscape of postmodern life, the theme of solitude, music in the novel, and technology.
STEPHEN D. DOWDEN is associate professor of German at Brandeis University. Contributors: DAVID BLUMBERG, MICHAEL BRENNER, STEPHEN DOWDEN, EDWARD ENGELBERG, ULKER GÖKBERK, EUGENE GOODHEART, JOSEPH P. LAWRENCE, KARLA SCHULTZ, SUSAN SONTAG, KENNETH WEISINGER

Autoren/Hrsg.

Dowden, Stephen D.

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Deutsche Literatur

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Transfiguration in Silence: Hans Castorp's Uncanny Awakening - Joseph Lawrence
Mann's Ethical Style - Stephen D. Dowden
Thomas Mann's Comic Spirit - Eugene Goodheart
War as Mentor: Thomas Mann and Germanness - Ulker Gokberk
From Muted Chords to Maddening Cacophony: Music in The Magic Mountain - David Blumberg
Ambiguous Solitude: Hans Castorp's Sturm und Drang nach Osten - Edward Engelberg
Mortal Illness on the Magic Mountain - Stephen Meredith - MD
Beyond Naphta: Thomas Mann's Jews and German-Jewish Writing - Michael Brenner
Technology as Desire: X-Ray Vision in The Magic Mountain - Karla L. Schultz
Distant Oil Rigs and Other Erections - Kenneth Weisinger
Pilgrimage - Susan Sontag

Über Autor(innen)

STEPHEN D. DOWDEN is associate professor of German at Brandeis University.