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Thomas Mann's artist-heroes /

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Meyers, Jeffrey (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Evanston, Illinois : Northwestern University Press, 2014.
Subjects:
Mann, Thomas, > 1875-1955 > Criticism and interpretation.
Artists in literature.
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction. My quest for Thomas Mann : the biographical context
  • Buddenbrooks
  • The early stories
  • "Little Lizzy"
  • "Tristan"
  • "Tonio Kroger"
  • "The blood of the Walsungs"
  • Death in Venice
  • Illness as enchantment : The magic mountain
  • Schiller's Don Carlos and The magic mountain
  • Comedy in The magic mountain
  • The late stories
  • "Disorder and early sorrow"
  • "Mario and the magician"
  • Art as disease : Doctor Faustus
  • Dürer and Doctor Faustus
  • The black swan
  • Confessions of Felix Krull
  • Thomas Mann in America
  • Family memoirs of Thomas Mann.