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Title: A Companion to the Works of Thomas Mann
Condition: New
ISBN-10: 1571134050
EAN: 9781571134059
ISBN: 9781571134059
Publisher: Camden House Inc
Format: Paperback
Release Date: 05/01/2009
Description: Sixteen new, carefully focused essays on the prose works of one of the great writers of modernity.Thomas Mann is among the greatest of German prose writers, and was the first German novelist to reach a wide English-speaking readership since Goethe. Novels such as Buddenbrooks, The Magic Mountain, and Doktor Faustus attest to his mastery of subtle, distanced irony, while novellas such as Death in Venice reveal him at the height of his mastery of language. In addition to fresh insights about these best-known works of Mann, this volume treats less-often-discussed works such as Joseph and His Brothers, Lotte in Weimar, and Felix Krull, as well as his political writings and essays. Mann himself was a paradox: his role as family-father was both refuge and façade; his love of Germany was matched by his contempt for its having embraced Hitler. While in exile during the Nazi period, he functioned as the prime representative of the "good" Germany in the fight against fascism, and he has often been remembered this way in English-speaking lands. But a new view of Mann is emerging half a century after his death: a view of him as one of the great writers of a modernity understood as extending into our 21st century. This volume provides sixteen essays by American and European specialists. They demonstrate the relevance of his writings for our time, making particular use of the biographical material that is now available. Contributors: Ehrhard Bahr, Manfred Dierks, Werner Frizen, Clayton Koelb, Helmut Koopmann, Wolfgang Lederer, Hannelore Mundt, Peter Pütz, Jens Rieckmann, Hans Joachim Sandberg, Egon Schwarz, and Hans Vaget. Herbert Lehnert is Research Professor, and Eva Wessell is Lecturer in Humanities, both at the University of California, Irvine.
Language: English
Country/Region of Manufacture: US
Item Height: 229mm
Item Length: 152mm
Contributor: Herbert Lehnert (Edited by), Eva Wessell (Edited by), Dr. Helmut Koopmann (Contributions by), Dr. Manfred Dierks (Contributions by), Egon Schwarz (Contributions by), Ehrhard Bahr (Contributions by), Eva Wessell (Contributions by), Hannelore Mundt (Contributions by), Hans Rudolf Vaget (Contributions by), Hans-Joachim Sandberg (Contributions by), Herbert Lehnert (Contributions by), Jens Rieckmann (Contributions by), Peter Puetz (Contributions by), Werner Frizen (Contributions by), Wolfgang Lederer (Contributions by)
Genre: Literary Criticism
Book Series: Studies in German Literature Linguistics and Culture
Item Weight: 1g
Author: Herbert Lehnert
Release Year: 2009

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