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Thomas Mann and Shakespeare : something rich and strange /

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

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Group Author: Döring, Tobias (Editor); Fernie, Ewan, 1971- (Editor)
Published: Bloomsbury Academic, an imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing Inc,
Publisher Address: New York :
Publication Dates: 2015.
Literature type: Book
Language: English
Series: New directions in German studies ; volume 14
Subjects:
Mann, Thomas, > 1875-1955 > Criticism and interpretation.
Shakespeare, William, > 1564-1616 > Criticism and interpretation.
Mann, Thomas, > 1875-1955 > Themes, motives.
Shakespeare, William, > 1564-1616 > Themes, motives.
Comparative literature > German and English.
Comparative literature > English and German.
Summary: "The first ever comparative reading of Shakespeare and Thomas Mann in view of key questions in modern culture"--
Carrier Form: ix, 268 pages ; 23 cm.
Bibliography: Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN: 9781628922097 (hardback) :
1628922095 (hardback)
9781501336089 (paperback)
9781628922103 (ePub)
1628922109 (ePub)
9781628922110 (ePDF)
1628922117 (ePDF)
Index Number: PT2625
CLC: I561.063
I516.065
Call Number: I516.065/T459
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: Hans Castorp as model critic / David Fuller (University of Durham, UK) -- 11. Changing the subject / Ulrike Draesner (writer and translator, Berlin, Germany) -- Afterword / Elisabeth Bronfen (Universität Zürich, Switzerland).

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