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  title info:
    title: Mann's magic mountain
    sub title: world literature and closer reading
  name:
    name part: Watroba, Karolina
    name part: 1992-
    role:
      role term: creator
    role:
      role term: author.
  type of resource: text
  genre: bibliography
  genre: Electronic books.
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: enk
    date issued: 2022
    copyright date: 2022
    edition: First edition.
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: remote
    extent: 1 online resource
  abstract: This is the first study of Thomas Mann's landmark German modernist novel Der Zauberberg (The Magic Mountain, 1924) that takes as its starting point the interest in Mann's book shown by non-academic readers. It is also a case study in a cluster of issues central to the interrelated fields of transnational German studies, global modernism studies, comparative literature, and reception theory: it addresses the global circulation of German modernism, popular afterlives of a canonical work, access to cultural participation, relationship between so-called 'high-brow' and 'low-brow'culture, and the limitations of traditional academic reading practices. The book intervenes in these discussions by developing a critical practice termed 'closer reading' and positioning it within the framework of world literature studies. The book centres around nine comparative readings of five novels, three films, and one short story conceived as responses to The Magic Mountain. They provide access to distinct readings of Mann's text on three levels: they function as records of their authors' reading of Mann, provide insights into broader, culturally and historically specific interpretations of the novel, and feature portrayals of fictional readers of The Magic Mountain. These nine case studies are contextualized, complemented, enhanced, and expanded through references to other diverse sources that testify to a lively engagement with The Magic Mountain outside of academic scholarship, including journalistic reviews, discussions on internet fora and blogs, personal essays and memoirs, Mann's fan mail and his replies to it, publishing advertisements, and marketing brochures from Davos, where the novel is set.
  table of contents: Introduction -- 1. Somehow Beside the Point? -- 2. World Literature and Closer Reading -- 3. Roadmap for the Journey Ahead -- 1. Economy -- 1. Introduction: Ordinary Young Man with a Crocodile-skin Handbag -- 2. No Communism Without The Magic Mountain -- 3. Intellectual Tourists -- 4. Magic Mountain Pilgrims -- 5. Conclusion: For the Many, Not the Few? -- 2. Emotions -- 1. Introduction: (Not) Covering His Face with His Hands -- 2. 'Is This the Promised End?' -- 3. 'Word-Searching Sickness' -- 4. 'I Know. I Know. You've Read The Magic Mountain' -- 5. Conclusion: Real-Life Castorps -- 3. Erudition -- 1. Introduction: Intellectual Table Tennis -- 2. Hans Castorp in Danzig -- 3. Hans Castorp in Japan -- 4. Hans Castorp in Old Age -- 5. Conclusion: Coming up for Air -- Conclusion -- Bibliography -- Index.
  note: Karolina Watroba.
  subject:
    name:
      name part: Mann, Thomas
      name part: 1875-1955
  subject:
    title info:
      title: Zauberberg (Mann, Thomas)
  subject:
    topic: European
  subject:
    topic: Literature: history & criticism
  subject:
    topic: Literature
  classification: PT2625.A44
  classification: 833.912
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    title info:
      title: Mann's magic mountain
    name:
      name part: Watroba, Karolina, 1992-
    origin info:
      publisher: Oxford, United Kingdom ; New York, NY : Oxford University Press, 2022
      edition: First edition.
    identifier: (OCoLC)1322048066
  related item:
    title info:
      title: Oxford modern languages and literature monographs
  identifier: 9780192699848
  identifier: 0192699849
  identifier: 019287179X
  identifier: 9780192871794
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  record info:
    record content source: N$T
    record creation date: 221025
    record change date: 20260318164726.7
    record identifier: in00005697509
    language of cataloging:
      language term: eng