Bibliograph

The Cambridge companion to Thomas Mann, edited by Ritchie Robertson

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The Cambridge companion to Thomas Mann, edited by Ritchie Robertson

Language

eng

Bibliography note

Includes bibliographical references (pages 249-252) and index

Illustrations

illustrations

Index

index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

The Cambridge companion to Thomas Mann

Nature of contents

handbooksdictionariesbibliography

Oclc number

123911170

Responsibility statement

edited by Ritchie Robertson

Series statement

Cambridge companions to literature

Summary

Key dimensions of Thomas Mann's writing and life are explored in this collection of specially commissioned essays. Introductory chapters covering all the main works of fiction, the essays and diaries, are followed by four chapters examining Mann's oeuvre in relation to major themes

Table Of Contents

Mann and history / T.J. Reed -- The intellectual world of Thomas Mann / Paul Bishop -- Mann's literary techniques / Michael Minden -- Mann's man's world: gender and sexuality / Andrew J. Webber -- Mann's early novellas / Mark M. Anderson -- Classicism and its pitfalls: Death in Venice / Ritchie Robertson -- The political becomes personal: Disorder and early sorrow and Mario and the magician / Alan Bance -- Buddenbrooks: between realism and aestheticism / Judith Ryan -- The magic mountain / Michael Beddow -- Religion and culture: Joseph and his brothers / Wolf-Daniel Hartwich -- Doctor Faustus / Susan von Rohr Scaff -- Lotte in Weimar / Yahya Elsaghe -- The confessions of Felix Krull, confidence man / Frederick A. Lubich -- Mann as essayist / Hinrich Siefken -- Mann as diarist / T.J. Reed -- Mann in English / Timothy Buck

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Thomas Mann

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