Thomas Mann and Shakespeare

Thomas Mann and Shakespeare: something rich and strange

by Doring, Tobias Fernie, Ewan

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"In Doktor Faustus, Thomas Mann associated Shakespeare with the Devil and the demonic guilt of Nazism. Bringing together major scholars from diverse disciplines and countries, this is the first ever book-length study to explore the always fascinating if sometimes disturbing connections between Shakespeare and Mann. It establishes startling resonances between the central works of these two authors, pairing, for instance, Der Zauberberg with The Tempest, Der Tod in Venedig with The Merchant of Ve…

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  • Full title :Thomas Mann and Shakespeare : something rich and strange / edited by Tobias Döring, Ewan Fernie.

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"In Doktor Faustus, Thomas Mann associated Shakespeare with the Devil and the demonic guilt of Nazism. Bringing together major scholars from diverse disciplines and countries, this is the first ever book-length study to explore the always fascinating if sometimes disturbing connections between Shakespeare and Mann. It establishes startling resonances between the central works of these two authors, pairing, for instance, Der Zauberberg with The Tempest, Der Tod in Venedig with The Merchant of Venice, Tonio Kröger with Othello, as well as Love's Labour's Lost with Doktor Faustus. It shows how the conjunction of Shakespeare and Mann affords new, alternative perspectives on fundamental issues such as modernity, irony, art, desire, authorship and religion. In the process, it demonstrates the scope for new ways of reading in literary studies in general, by renewing European intellectual connections in the wake of postcolonialism, and challenging the increasingly walled-in specialism of literary topics and periodization"--

"The first ever comparative reading of Shakespeare and Thomas Mann in view of key questions in modern culture"--

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  • Publication Date:©2015

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The Physical Object

  • Description:ix, 268 pages ; : 23 cm.

Edition Identifiers

  • ISBN:9781628922097, 1628922095
  • oclc:ocn900913565
  • LC Classification:PT2625.A44
  • Dewey Decimal:833/.912

Table of Contents

Introduction: something rich and strange / Tobias Döring (LMU München, Germany) and Ewan Fernie (University of Birmingham, UK) -- 1. The violence of desire: Shakespeare, Nietzsche, Mann / Jonathan Dollimore (University of York, UK) -- 2. Laughter in the throat of death: Thomas Mann's Shakespearean Sprachkrise / Richard Wilson -- 3. Masquerades of love: Love's Labour's Lost and the musical development of Shakespeare's comedy in Mann's Doktor Faustus / Alexander Honold -- 4. The magic fountain: Shakespeare, Mann, and modern authorship / Tobias Döring (LMU München, Germany) -- 5. 'A dark exception among the rule-abiding': Thomas Mann and Othello / Friedhelm Marx (Universität Bamberg, Germany) -- 6. 'Who chooseth me must give and hazard all he hath': Shakespearean overtones in Mann's Der Tod in Venedig / John T. Hamilton (Harvard University, USA) -- 7. Shakespeare to Mann, via Wagner / Dave Paxton (University of Birmingham, UK) -- 8. .'Yes-yes, no': Mann, Shakespeare and the struggle for affirmation / Ewan Fernie (University of Birmingham, UK) -- 9. Teenage fanclub: Mann and Shakespeare in the queer pantheon / Heather Love (University of Pennsylvania, USA) -- 10. A kind of loving: Han…

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Subjects

Comparative literature -- English and G… Comparative literature -- German and En… Criticism, interpretation, etc engelsk litteratur LITERARY CRITICISM -- European LITERARY CRITICISM -- Shakespeare Littérature comparée -- Allemande et an… Littérature comparée -- Anglaise et all… Mann, Thomas Rezeption Shakespeare, William Themes, motives tysk-litteratur

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Doring, Tobias Fernie, Ewan

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