Mann: Doctor Faustus

Klappentext In this study! Michael Beddow analyses the chief historical! theological! psychological and musical themes of this complex work! and considers Mann's indebtedness to the Faust tradition! Nietzsche and neo-Marxism. Zusammenfassung In Doctor Faustus! his last major novel! Thomas Mann attempted to interpret and judge Germany's role in European culture and history since the Reformation. In this study! Michael Beddow analyses the chief historical! theological! psychological and musical themes of this complex work! and considers Mann's indebtedness to the Faust tradition! Nietzsche and neo-Marxism. Inhaltsverzeichnis Acknowledgements; Chronological table of Thomas Mann's life; Table of Adrian Leverkühn's life and works; Note on editions; 1. Antecedents; 2. An artist's life; 3. Matters theological; 4. Germans; 5. Reception; 6. Further reading.

Product details

• Authors: Michael Beddow, Michael (University of Leeds) Beddow, Beddow Michael
• Assisted by: J. P. Stern (Editor)
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 29.09.1994
• EAN: 9780521375924
• ISBN: 978-0-521-37592-4
• No. of pages: 136
• Series: Landmarks of World Literature; Landmarks of World Literature
• Subjects: Fiction > Poetry, drama; Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > German linguistics / literary studies; Germany, LITERARY CRITICISM / European / German, LITERARY CRITICISM / European / Scandinavian, LITERARY CRITICISM / Modern / 20th Century, german, Northern Europe, Scandinavia, Literary studies: from c 1900 -, Literary studies: fiction, novelists & prose writers, Literary studies: fiction, novelists and prose writers, Literary studies: c 1900 to c 2000, LITERARY CRITICISM / Novel as Form