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Author : T. E. Apter
Publisher : London : Macmillan
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 184 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)
Download or read book Thomas Mann, the Devil's Advocate written by T. E. Apter and published by London : Macmillan. This book was released on 1978 with total page 184 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : T.E. Apter
Publisher : Palgrave Macmillan
ISBN 13 : 9781349035960
Total Pages : 165 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (359 download)
Download or read book Thomas Mann written by T.E. Apter and published by Palgrave Macmillan. This book was released on 2014-01-14 with total page 165 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Adrian Del Caro
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (634 download)
Download or read book The Devil as Advocate in the Last Novels of Thomas Mann and Dostoevsky written by Adrian Del Caro and published by . This book was released on 1988 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Caroline Joan (Kay) S. Picart
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004494944
Total Pages : 181 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (44 download)
Download or read book Thomas Mann and Friedrich Nietzsche written by Caroline Joan (Kay) S. Picart and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2022-07-11 with total page 181 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Traditional interpretations of Thomas Mann's relation to Nietzsche's writings plot out a simple relation of earlier adulation and later rejection. The book argues that Mann's disavowal of Nietzsche's influence was, in the words of T.J. Reed, a necessary political act when the repudiation of Nietzsche's more hysterical doctrines required such a response. Using a genealogical method, the book traces how Mann labors ambivalently under the shadow of Nietzsche's writings on his own political artistry through a detailed analysis of Mann's Death in Venice, Dr. Faustus, the Joseph tetralogy, and Confessions of Felix Krull, Confidence Man. Using the recurring Nietzschean themes of eroticism, death, music, and laughter as a guide, it arrives at a rough picture of how Mann both takes up and discontinues Nietzsche's poetic heritage. The book derives the vision of the interrelationships binding these four leitmotiv elements from Dürer's magic square as depicted in Melancholia I. The link with Dürer is far from arbitrary because Mann directly aligned Nietzschean insight with Dürer's world of passion, sympathy with suffering, the macabre stench of rotting flesh, and Faustian melancholy.
Author : Harold Bloom
Publisher : Infobase Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1438116322
Total Pages : 117 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (381 download)
Download or read book Thomas Mann written by Harold Bloom and published by Infobase Publishing. This book was released on 2009 with total page 117 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Presents a brief biography of Thomas Mann, thematic and structural analysis of his works, critical views, and an index of themes and ideas.
Author : Ritchie Robertson
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521653701
Total Pages : 292 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (537 download)
Download or read book The Cambridge Companion to Thomas Mann written by Ritchie Robertson and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2002 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Specially-commissioned essays explore key dimensions of Thomas Mann's writing and life.
Author : Ian Watt
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 0521585643
Total Pages : 313 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (215 download)
Download or read book Myths of Modern Individualism written by Ian Watt and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1996 with total page 313 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this volume, Ian Watt examines the myths of Faust, Don Quixote, Don Juan and Robinson Crusoe, as the distinctive products of modern society. He traces the way the original versions of Faust, Don Quixote and Don Juan - all written within a forty-year period during the Counter Reformation - presented unflattering portrayals of the three figures, while the Romantic period two centuries later recreated them as admirable and even heroic. The twentieth century retained their prestige as mythical figures, but with a new note of criticism. Robinson Crusoe came much later than the other three, but his fate can be seen as representative of the new religious, economic and social attitudes which succeeded the Counter-Reformation. The four figures help to reveal problems of individualism in the modern period: solitude, narcissism, and the claims of the self versus the claims of society. They all pursue their own view of what they should be, raising strong questions about their heroes' character and the societies whose ideals they reflect.
Author : Thomas L. Jeffers
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 7 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (637 download)
Download or read book God, Man, the Devil - and Thomas Mann written by Thomas L. Jeffers and published by . This book was released on 2005 with total page 7 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Erik Butler
Publisher : Reaktion Books
ISBN 13 : 1789143748
Total Pages : 273 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (891 download)
Download or read book The Devil and His Advocates written by Erik Butler and published by Reaktion Books. This book was released on 2021-04-08 with total page 273 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Satan is not God’s enemy in the Bible, and he’s not always bad—much less evil. Through the lens of the Old and New Testaments, Erik Butler explores the Devil in literature, theology, visual art, and music from antiquity up to the present, discussing canonical authors (Dante, Milton, and Goethe among them) and a wealth of lesser-known sources. Since his first appearance in the Book of Job, Satan has pursued a single objective: to test human beings, whose moral worth and piety leave plenty of room for doubt. Satan can be manipulative, but at worst he facilitates what mortals are inclined to do anyway. “The Devil made me do it” does not hold up in the court of cosmic law. With wit and surprising examples, this book explains why.
Author : Ellis Shookman
Publisher : Boydell & Brewer
ISBN 13 : 157113056X
Total Pages : 321 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (711 download)
Download or read book Thomas Mann's Death in Venice written by Ellis Shookman and published by Boydell & Brewer. This book was released on 2003 with total page 321 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Study of the critical reception of one of the most famous and widely read works of modern literature. Thomas Mann's 1912 novella Death in Venice is one of the most famous and widely read texts in all of modern literature, raising such issues as beauty and decadence, eros and irony, and aesthetics and morality. The amount and variety of criticism on the work is enormous, and ranges from psychoanalytic criticism and readings inspired by Mann's own homosexuality to inquiries into the place of the novella in Mann's oeuvre, its structure and style, and its symbolism and politics. Critics have also drawn connections between the novella and works of Plato, Euripides, Goethe, Schopenhauer, Platen, Wagner, Nietzsche, Gide, and Conrad. Ellis Shookman surveys the reception of Deathin Venice, analyzing several hundred books, articles, and other reactions to the novella, proceeding in a chronological manner that allows a historical perspective. Critics cited include Heinrich Mann, Hermann Broch, D. H. Lawrence, Karl Kraus, Kenneth Burke, Georg Lukàcs, Wolfgang Koeppen, Mario Vargas Llosa, and Thomas Mann himself. Particular attention is paid to Luchino Visconti's film, Benjamin Britten's opera, and to other more recent creative adaptations, both in Germany and throughout the world. Ellis Shookman is associate professor of German at Dartmouth College.
Author : Paul Bishop
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter
ISBN 13 : 3110811707
Total Pages : 429 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (18 download)
Download or read book The Dionysian Self written by Paul Bishop and published by Walter de Gruyter. This book was released on 2010-11-05 with total page 429 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The series presents outstanding monographic interpretations of Nietzsche's work as a whole or of specific themes and aspects. These works are written mostly from a philosophical, literary, communication science, sociological or historical perspective. The publications reflect the current state of research on Nietzsche's philosophy, on his sources, and on the influence of his writings. The volumes are peer-reviewed.
Author : John F. Fetzer
Publisher : Camden House
ISBN 13 : 9781571130709
Total Pages : 226 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (37 download)
Download or read book Changing Perceptions of Thomas Mann's Doctor Faustus written by John F. Fetzer and published by Camden House. This book was released on 1996 with total page 226 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ever since its appearance in 1947, Thomas Mann's novel Doctor Faustus has generated heated reactions among critics. Whereas initial ideological differences stemming from the Cold War and the division of Germany have abated following the reunification of 1990, diverse opinions and controversies persist about Mann's daring treatment of the Faust theme. These include such topics as the political stance of the author and the historical dimensions of the novel; the biographical and autobiographical and backgrounds of the workespecially in light of the subsequent publication of Mann's diaries and private notebooks; the writer's sexual and psychological proclivities; the thorny issues of montage, collage, and intertextuality; musical concerns such as the extent to which the novel's protagonist appropriates as his own Arnold Schonberg's twelve-tone system of composition or the role of Mann's fellow exile and mentor, Theodor W. Adorno, in indoctrinating his "pupil" into avant-garde musical techniques; the degree to which the novel exhibits structural features of the music on which the narrative focuses; and the function of certain mythic prototypes for this modern parody in fashioning the fortunes and fate of Adrian Leverkuhn. A provocative and still unresolved question centers on the precise role played by Goethe's Faust in the conception and execution of Doctor Faustus, in spite of Mann's assertion that his version of the legend had "nothing in common" with the work of his famous predecessor. Finally, the presence of strong visual elements in the novel leads to an assessment of the critical reception accorded Franz Seitz's film adaptation of Doctor Faustus (1982), a dicey subject in Manncircles, since few filmed versions of his novellas or novels have enjoyed an unsullied reputation.
Author : Jeffrey Meyers
Publisher : Northwestern University Press
ISBN 13 : 0810129531
Total Pages : 252 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (11 download)
Download or read book Thomas Mann's Artist-Heroes written by Jeffrey Meyers and published by Northwestern University Press. This book was released on 2014-02-28 with total page 252 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Jeffrey Meyers has written acclaimed biographies of many of the most influential authors of the twentieth century, but none has affected him as deeply as Thomas Mann. From his first youthful encounter with Death in Venice, Meyers has cultivated a lifetime obsession with Mann's elegant style, penetrating irony, and insight into the life of the artist.Admirers of Thomas Mann and of Jeffrey Meyers's biographies will find in this remarkable book the best introduction to one of the greatest writers of the modern age.
Author : Inez Hedges
Publisher : SIU Press
ISBN 13 : 0809386534
Total Pages : 262 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (93 download)
Download or read book Framing Faust written by Inez Hedges and published by SIU Press. This book was released on 2009-03-10 with total page 262 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this interdisciplinary cultural history that encompasses film, literature, music, and drama, Inez Hedges follows the thread of the Faustian rebel in the major intellectual currents of the last hundred years. She presents Faust and his counterpart Mephistopheles as antagonistic—yet complementary—figures whose productive conflict was integral to such phenomena as the birth of narrative cinema, the rise of modernist avant-gardes before World War II, and feminist critiques of Western cultural traditions. Framing Faust: Twentieth-Century Cultural Struggles pursues a dialectical approach to cultural history. Using the probing lens of cultural studies, Hedges shows how claims to the Faustian legacy permeated the struggle against Nazism in the 1930s while infusing not only the search for socialist utopias in Russia, France, and Germany, but also the quest for legitimacy on both sides of the Cold War divide after 1945. Hedges balances new perspectives on such well-known works as Thomas Mann’s Dr. Faustus and Jack Kerouac’s Dr. Sax with discussions of previously overlooked twentieth-century expressions of the Faust myth, including American film noir and the Faust films of Stan Brakhage. She evaluates musical compositions—Hanns Eisler’s Faust libretto, the opera Votre Faust by Henri Pousseur and Michel Butor, and Alfred Schnittke’s Faust Cantata—as well as works of fiction and drama in French and German, many of which have heretofore never been discussed outside narrow disciplinary confines. Enhanced by twenty-four illustrations, Framing Faust provides a fascinating and focused narrative of some of the major cultural struggles of the past century as seen through the Faustian prism, and establishes Faust as an important present-day frame of reference.
Author : Catherine DeAngelis
Publisher : Archway Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1665725826
Total Pages : 212 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (657 download)
Download or read book Angel or Devil’s Advocate written by Catherine DeAngelis and published by Archway Publishing. This book was released on 2022-07-28 with total page 212 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It is May 2017 as someone in a white coat enters the dark room of a sleeping patient at St. Joseph’s Hospital, adds medicine to his IV, and quietly leaves into the night. Moments later, the patient tries to call out as he struggles to breathe, but it is too late. He is gone. A few months later, Dr. Mary Davino Defazio, known as Dr. D to her patients, is enjoying the beginning of a lovely friendship with the hospital chaplain, Father Dan Murphy. As they share stories about their backgrounds and Catholic faith, neither has any idea of the full extent of what their adventure together will involve. When a second patient suddenly passes away during the same overnight shift, the autopsy shows the exact result as the first patient’s: no obvious reason for the death. As Dr. D is pulled into a complex murder plot, she pursues truth and justice, all while struggling with an existential crisis. Will she find a way to solve the murders and resolve her personal issues in the process? Angel or Devil’s Advocate is the thrilling tale of a doctor’s journey through personal challenges and a murder investigation after two patients die under suspicious circumstances in the hospital.
Author : Hannelore Mundt
Publisher : Univ of South Carolina Press
ISBN 13 : 9781570035371
Total Pages : 286 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (353 download)
Download or read book Understanding Thomas Mann written by Hannelore Mundt and published by Univ of South Carolina Press. This book was released on 2004 with total page 286 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Understanding Thomas Mann offers a comprehensive guide to the novels, short stories, novellas, and nonfiction of one of the most renowned and prolific German writers. In close readings, Hannelore Mundt illustrates how Mann's masterly prose captures both his time and the complexities of human existence with a unique blend of humor, compassion, irony, and ambiguity.
Author : Bart Vandenabeele
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
ISBN 13 : 1444347551
Total Pages : 430 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (443 download)
Download or read book A Companion to Schopenhauer written by Bart Vandenabeele and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2011-11-28 with total page 430 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Companion to Schopenhauer provides a comprehensive guide to all the important facets of Schopenhauer’s philosophy. The volume contains 26 newly commissioned essays by prominent Schopenhauer scholars working in the field today. A thoroughly comprehensive guide to the life, work, and thought of Arthur Schopenhauer Demonstrates the range of Schopenhauer’s work and illuminates the debates it has generated 26 newly commissioned essays by some of the most prominent Schopenhauer scholars working today reflect the very latest trends in Schopenhauer scholarship Covers the full range of historical and philosophical perspectives on Schopenhauer’s work Discusses his seminal contributions to our understanding of knowledge, perception, morality, science, logic and mathematics, Platonic Ideas, the unconscious, aesthetic experience, art, colours, sexuality, will, compassion, pessimism, tragedy, pleasure, and happiness
