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Thomas Mann

  • Textbook
  • © 1992

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Authors:
  1. Martin Travers
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Part of the book series: Modern Novelists (MONO)

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Table of contents (10 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-viii
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  2. Thomas Mann: Between Patrician and Artist

    • Martin Travers
    Pages 1-16

  3. Decadence and the Decline of the Family: Buddenbrooks

    • Martin Travers
    Pages 17-33

  4. The Artist and Society: Tristan, Tonio Kröger and the Early Stories

    • Martin Travers
    Pages 34-47

  5. Liebestod: Death in Venice

    • Martin Travers
    Pages 48-59

  6. Sickness, Knowledge and the Formation of Self: The Magic Mountain

    • Martin Travers
    Pages 60-73

  7. The Call to Unreason: Mario and the Magician

    • Martin Travers
    Pages 74-84

  8. Myth and Counter-Myth: The joseph Tetralogy

    • Martin Travers
    Pages 85-97

  9. Thomas Mann and the Germans: Doctor Faustus

    • Martin Travers
    Pages 98-114

  10. The Play of Eroticism: The Confessions of Felix Krull

    • Martin Travers
    Pages 115-126

  11. Conclusion: Thomas Mann: A Modern Novelist?

    • Martin Travers
    Pages 127-130

  12. Back Matter

    Pages 131-146
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This volume provides a new introduction to the major fiction of Thomas Mann. Drawing upon recent scholarship, it discusses the key themes and issues with which Mann grappled in his writings - the predicament and the artist and 'bourgeois' society, the affinity between disease and knowledge, the problematic nature of time, and the tensions between irony and morality - relating them both to the life of the author and to the wider intellectual context of early twentieth century Europe.

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