Thomas Mann's The Magic Mountain - A Casebook

Zusatztext Makes a valuable contribution to scholarship on both the novel and Mann's life and work. Informationen zum Autor Hans Rudolf Vaget is Helen and Laura Shedd Professor of German Studies and Comparative Literature Emeritus at Smith College. Born in Czechoslovakia, educated in Germany, Great Britain, and the USA, H. R. Vaget has been teaching German Studies at Smith College since 1967. He has published widely on Goethe and his age; Wagner and Wagnerism; Thomas Mann and modernism. Klappentext This collection seeks to illustrate the ways in which Thomas Mann's 1924 novel, The Magic Mountain, has been newly construed by some of today's most astute readers in the field of Mann studies. The essays, many of which were written expressly for this volume, comment on some of the familiar and inescapable topics of Magic Mountain scholarship, including the questions of genre and ideology, the philosophy of time, and the ominous subjects of diseaseand medical practice. Moreover, this volume offers fresh approaches to the novels underlying notions of masculinity, to its embodiment of the cultural code of anti-Semitism, and to its precarious relationship to the rival media of photography, cinema, and recorded sound. Zusammenfassung This collection seeks to illustrate the ways in which Thomas Mann's 1924 novel, The Magic Mountain, has been newly construed by some of today's most astute readers in the field of Mann studies. The essays, many of which were written expressly for this volume, comment on some of the familiar and inescapable topics of Magic Mountain scholarship, including the questions of genre and ideology, the philosophy of time, and the ominous subjects of disease and medical practice. Moreover, this volume offers fresh approaches to the novel's underlying notions of masculinity, to its embodiment of the cultural code of anti-Semitism, and to its precarious relationship to the rival media of photography, cinema, and recorded sound....

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• Authors: Hans Rudolf Vaget, Hans Rudolph Vaget, Hans Rudolph (EDT) Vaget, Hans Rudolph (Shedd Professor of German Studies Vaget, Vaget Hans Rudolph
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 24.03.2008
• EAN: 9780195304732
• ISBN: 978-0-19-530473-2
• No. of pages: 275
• Dimensions: 146 mm x 216 mm x 19 mm
• Series: Casebooks in Criticism; Casebooks in Criticism
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > German linguistics / literary studies; HISTORY / Europe / Germany, European History, Germany, 20th century history: c 1900 to c 2000, LITERARY CRITICISM / European / German, LITERARY CRITICISM / Modern / 20th Century, 20th century, c 1900 to c 1999, 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