The Cambridge Companion to Thomas MannRitchie Robertson 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. |
Contents
Mann and history | 1 |
The intellectual world of Thomas Mann | 22 |
Manns literary techniques | 43 |
Manns mans world gender and sexuality | 64 |
Manns early novellas | 84 |
Classicism and its pitfalls Death in Venice | 95 |
The political becomes personal Disorder and Early Sorrow and Mario and the Magician | 107 |
Buddenbrooks between realism and aestheticism | 119 |
Doctor Faustus | 168 |
Lotte in Weimar | 185 |
The Confessions of Felix Krull Confidence Man | 199 |
Mann as essayist | 213 |
Mann as diarist | 226 |
Mann in English | 235 |
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