Please note: In order to keep Hive up to date and provide users with the best features, we are no longer able to fully support Internet Explorer. The site is still available to you, however some sections of the site may appear broken. We would encourage you to move to a more modern browser like Firefox, Edge or Chrome in order to experience the site fully.

Supporting your high street Find out how »
A Companion to Thomas Mann's Magic Mountain, Paperback / softback Book

A Companion to Thomas Mann's Magic Mountain Paperback / softback

Edited by Stephen D. (Translator) Dowden

Part of the Studies in German Literature Linguistics and Culture series

Paperback / softback

Available to Order - This title is available to order, with delivery expected within 2 weeks

Description

Volume offering a guide to and reassessment of Thomas Mann's famous novel. Thomas Mann was the first writer since Goethe to attract a large international audience to stories written in German, bringing German fiction into the mainstream of European literature.

His second major work, The Magic Mountain (1924), explores the heady intellectual culture of the chaotic and broken Germany that emerged from the First World War, and, along with the earlier Buddenbrooks, earned him a Nobel Prize for literature in 1929.

Mann himself considered The Magic Mountain to be his greatest novel, and few in his own day doubted the preeminence of this modernist classic; however, many have argued that the age of literary modernism has passed.

If this is so, how might we best understand Mann's masterpiece now?

Topics covered in this volume, which aims to provide both a survey of and new research into important aspects of the work, include Mann's comic vision, his homosexuality, his fraught attitude toward Jews, the place of his novel in the landscape of postmodern life, the theme of solitude, music in the novel, and technology. Stephen D. Dowden is Professor of German at Brandeis University. Contributors: David Blumberg, Michael Brenner, Stephen Dowden, Edward Engelberg, Ulker Gökberk, Eugene Goodheart, Joseph P.

Lawrence, Karla Schultz, Susan Sontag, Kenneth Weisinger. Stephen D. Dowden is Professor of German at Brandeis University.

Information

Save 4%

£24.99

£23.79

Available to Order - This title is available to order, with delivery expected within 2 weeks
Add to Basket
Sign in to add to wishlist
 
Free Home Delivery

on all orders

 
Pick up orders

from local bookshops

Information

Also in the Studies in German Literature Linguistics and Culture series  |  View all

Intimate Relations

£95.00

Pre-Order

Violence Elsewhere 1

£95.00

Add to Basket

Border Poetics in German and Polish...

£90.00

Pre-Order

Max Stirner and Nihilism

£90.00

Pre-Order