The Cambridge Companion to Thomas Mann

✍ Scribed by Ritchie Robertson

• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Year: 2001
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 283
• Series: Cambridge Companions to Literature
• Edition: 1ST
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

Key dimensions of Thomas Mann's writing and life are explored in this collection of specially commissioned essays. In addition to introductory chapters on all the main works of fiction and the essays and diaries, there are four chapters examining Mann's oeuvre in relation to major themes. A final chapter looks at the pitfalls of translating Mann into English. The essays are well supported by supplementary material including a chronology of the period and detailed guides to further reading.

✦ Table of Contents

Cover......Page 1
Half-title......Page 3
Series-title......Page 6
Title......Page 9
Copyright......Page 10
CONTENTS......Page 11
NOTES ON THE CONTRIBUTORS......Page 13
PREFACE......Page 15
CHRONOLOGY......Page 17
LIST OF THOMAS MANN’S WORKS......Page 21
A NOTE ON REFERENCES AND ABBREVIATIONS......Page 24
1 Mann and history......Page 27
NOTES......Page 45
FURTHER READING......Page 47
2 The intellectual world of Thomas Mann......Page 48
Schopenhauer and Nietzsche......Page 50
Wagner......Page 55
Romanticism......Page 56
Psychoanalysis......Page 58
Weimar classicism......Page 62
NOTES......Page 67
FURTHER READING......Page 68
3 Mann’s literary techniques......Page 69
NOTES......Page 87
FURTHER READING......Page 89
4 Mann’s man’s world: gender and sexuality......Page 90
NOTES......Page 108
FURTHER READING......Page 109
5 Mann’s early novellas......Page 110
NOTES......Page 119
FURTHER READING......Page 120
6 Classicism and its pitfalls: Death in Venice......Page 121
NOTES......Page 130
FURTHER READING......Page 131
7 The political becomes personal: Disorder and Early Sorrow and Mario and the Magician......Page 133
FURTHER READING......Page 143
8 Buddenbrooks: between realism and aestheticism......Page 145
NOTES......Page 160
FURTHER READING......Page 161
9 The Magic Mountain......Page 163
FURTHER READING......Page 176
10 Religion and culture: Joseph and his Brothers......Page 177
Israel in Egypt: cultural memory and its media......Page 178
Myth as psychology: the Joseph novels as a critique of psychoanalysis......Page 184
Metaphysics and politics: Mann’s Joseph in its time......Page 189
NOTES......Page 192
FURTHER READING......Page 193
11 Doctor Faustus......Page 194
The crisis of the times......Page 196
The crisis in music......Page 201
The enigma of the endings......Page 206
FURTHER READING......Page 209
12 Lotte in Weimar......Page 211
NOTES......Page 222
FURTHER READING......Page 223
13 The Confessions of Felix Krull, Confidence Man......Page 225
NOTES......Page 237
FURTHER READING......Page 238
14 Mann as essayist......Page 239
FURTHER READING......Page 250
15 Mann as diarist......Page 252
NOTES......Page 259
FURTHER READING......Page 260
16 Mann in English......Page 261
NOTES......Page 273
FURTHER READING......Page 274
Works by Thomas Mann......Page 275
Secondary literature......Page 276
General studies......Page 277
INDEX......Page 279