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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Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Döring, Tobias (Author, Editor), Fernie, Ewan, 1971- (Author, Editor)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: New York : Bloomsbury Academic, [2015]
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).