Thomas Mann and Shakespeare : something rich and strange /
In Doktor Faustus, Thomas Mann associated Shakespeare with the Devil and the demonic guilt of Nazism. Bringing together major scholars from diverse disciplines and countries, this is the first ever book-length study to explore the always fascinating if sometimes disturbing connections between Shakes...
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New York :
Bloomsbury Academic,
[2015]
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| Series: | New directions in German studies ;
v. 14. |
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Table of Contents:
- 1. Introduction
- Tobias Döring (LMU München, Germany) and Ewan Fernie (University of Birmingham, UK)
- 2. The magic fountain: Shakespeare, Mann, and modern authorship
- Tobias Döring (LMU München, Germany)
- 3. 'A dark exception among the rule-abiding': Mann's Othello
- Friedhelm Marx (Universität Bamberg, Germany)
- 4. 'Who chooseth me must give and hazard all he hath': Shakespearean overtones in Mann's Der Tod in Venedig
- John Hamilton (Harvard University, USA)
- 5. Yearnings and regressions: Shakespeare, Wagner, Mann
- Dave Paxton (University of Birmingham, UK)
- 6. The music of laughter: Shakespearean love-comedy in Mann's Doktor Faustus
- Alexander Honold (Universität Basel, Switzerland)
- 7. Gravity's revolt: Shakespeare as Mann's guilty party
- Richard Wilson (University of Kingston, UK)
- 8. Reading ahead and sliding back: the American Thomas Mann and Shakespeare's all-American lesbian fan club
- Heather Love (University of Pennsylvania, USA)
- 9. Hans Castorp as Shakespeare critic
- David Fuller (University of Durham, UK)
- 10. The violence of desire: Shakespeare, Nietzsche, Mann
- Jonathan Dollimore (University of York, UK)
- 11.'Yes-yes, no': Affirmation in Joseph und seine Brüder and As You Like It
- Ewan Fernie (University of Birmingham, UK)
- 12. Triangulation: Shakespeare, Mann, and I
- Ulrike Draesner (writer and translator, Berlin, Germany)
- 13. Afterword
- Elisabeth Bronfen (Universität Zürich, Switzerland).