The Cambridge Companion to Thomas MannRitchie Robertson Key dimensions of Thomas Mann's writing and life are explored in this collection of specially commissioned essays. In addition to introductory chapters on all the main works of fiction, the essays and diaries, there are four chapters examining Mann's oeuvre in relation to major themes. A final chapter looks at the pitfalls of translating Mann into English. The essays are well supported by supplementary material including a chronology of the period and detailed guides to further reading. Altogether the volume provides an invaluable resource for scholars and students. |
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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