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The Magic Mountain

Author : Thomas Mann
Publisher : Vintage
ISBN 13 : 0593688139
Total Pages : 722 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (936 download)

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Download or read book The Magic Mountain written by Thomas Mann and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2023-07-26 with total page 722 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: NOBEL PRIZE WINNER • A monumental work of erudition and irony, sexual tension and intellectual ferment, The Magic Mountain is an enduring classic. With this dizzyingly rich novel of ideas, Thomas Mann rose to the front ranks of the great modern novelists, winning the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1929. The Magic Mountain takes place in an exclusive tuberculosis sanatorium in the Swiss Alps–a community devoted to sickness that serves as a fictional microcosm for Europe in the days before the First World War. To this hermetic and otherworldly realm comes Hans Castorp, an “ordinary young man” who arrives for a short visit and ends up staying for seven years, during which he succumbs both to the lure of eros and to the intoxication of ideas.

America's Magic Mountain

Author : Curtis White
Publisher : Dalkey Archive Press
ISBN 13 : 9781564783691
Total Pages : 248 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (836 download)

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Download or read book America's Magic Mountain written by Curtis White and published by Dalkey Archive Press. This book was released on 2004 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Filled with many compelling, outrageous, and comic voices, White's novel is disturbing, charming, and biting. Curtis White's new novel begins with Mann's "unassuming young man," Hans Castorp, visiting his cousin at a health retreat. In this book, though, the retreat is a spa for recovering alcoholics, totally unlike all other rehab centres. Rather than encouraging their patients to free themselves from addiction, the directors of The Elixir believe that sobriety isn't for everyone, that you must let alcohol work its way on you. It is about a weird and unlikely world that, nevertheless, is quite recognisable as our own.

The Senses of Modernism

Author : Sara Danius
Publisher : Cornell University Press
ISBN 13 : 150172116X
Total Pages : 263 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (17 download)

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Download or read book The Senses of Modernism written by Sara Danius and published by Cornell University Press. This book was released on 2019-01-24 with total page 263 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In The Senses of Modernism, Sara Danius develops a radically new theoretical and historical understanding of high modernism. The author closely analyzes Thomas Mann's The Magic Mountain, Marcel Proust's Remembrance of Things Past, and James Joyce's Ulysses as narratives of the sweeping changes that affected high and low culture in the age of technological reproduction. In her discussion of the years from 1880 to 1930, Danius proposes that the high-modernist aesthetic is inseparable from a technologically mediated crisis of the senses. She reveals the ways in which categories of perceiving and knowing are realigned when technological devices are capable of reproducing sense data. Sparked by innovations such as chronophotography, phonography, radiography, cinematography, and technologies of speed, this sudden shift in perceptual abilities had an effect on all arts of the time.Danius explores how perception, notably sight and hearing, is staged in the three most significant modern novels in German, French, and British literature. The Senses of Modernism connects technological change and formal innovation to transform the study of modernist aesthetics. Danius questions the longstanding acceptance of a binary relationship between high and low culture and describes the complicated relationship between modernism and technology, challenging the conceptual divide between a technological culture and a more properly aesthetic one.

Mann's Magic Mountain

Author : Karolina Watroba
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 019287179X
Total Pages : 220 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (928 download)

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Download or read book Mann's Magic Mountain written by Karolina Watroba and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2022-10-06 with total page 220 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 study intervenes in these discussions by developing a critical practice termed 'closer reading' and positioning it within the framework of world literature studies. Mann's Magic Mountain centres around nine comparative readings of five novels, three films, and one short story conceived as responses to The Magic Mountain. These works 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 hundreds of 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.

The Chronicles of My Unique Life

Author : Darlene House
Publisher : AuthorHouse
ISBN 13 : 1468545744
Total Pages : 520 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (685 download)

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Download or read book The Chronicles of My Unique Life written by Darlene House and published by AuthorHouse. This book was released on 2012-06 with total page 520 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The author was raised in the San Fernando Valley of Southern California, when the Valley was a wide-open area of orange groves, homes and estates. The large estates were owned by the movie stars such as Roy Rogers and other stars in their heyday. After marriage, my husband and I desired to raise our family in a country atmosphere with a minuscule population. We sold our first home in the valley in order to move to the tiny town of Acton, in the mountainous countryside sixty miles north of Los Angeles. The time line of book is 1928 to 2011 with many odd happening in our lives and unusual memories and pleasant days in the country. We cleared the land, put down a well, and built our home ourselves and raised a family of four children. Upon completion of the house it was necessary to move the home if we wished to continue living in it. It was a new home and yes we wanted it, but this proved to be frightening experience and a near tragic disaster! This is only one of the many unusual happenings in our life in the country. Unwanted animals are freely given to people who live in the country from friends. In this manner, we acquired a burro that soon gave birth to a strong baby burro (on its first day of birth, kicked our young son and knocked him down), several dogs, a beautiful horse and another burro. Life in the country was always surprising and a pleasant place to raise a family, sometimes difficult but nice! We knew friends in a circle of twenty miles in every direction. Our two sons still live in Acton, our daughters have moved to the beach cities in California.

A Provocative People

Author : Sherwin T. Wine
Publisher : IISHJ-NA
ISBN 13 : 0985151609
Total Pages : 524 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (851 download)

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Download or read book A Provocative People written by Sherwin T. Wine and published by IISHJ-NA. This book was released on 2012 with total page 524 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

An Aesthetics of Morality

Author : John Krapp
Publisher : Univ of South Carolina Press
ISBN 13 : 9781570034480
Total Pages : 246 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (344 download)

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Download or read book An Aesthetics of Morality written by John Krapp and published by Univ of South Carolina Press. This book was released on 2002 with total page 246 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Focusing on instances of moral pedagogy in novels by Thomas Mann, Albert Camus, Joseph Conrad, and Fyodor Dostoevsky, he suggests that literature uses an aesthetic portrayal of personal relations to introduce scenes of moral tension that illustrate the way ethical claims are made and validated."--BOOK JACKET.

Moscow Noir

Author : Natalia Smirnova
Publisher : Akashic Books
ISBN 13 : 1936070065
Total Pages : 306 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (36 download)

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Download or read book Moscow Noir written by Natalia Smirnova and published by Akashic Books. This book was released on 2010 with total page 306 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The more one watches Moscow, the more it looks like a huge chameleon that keeps changing its face; and it isn't always pretty. Despite its stunning outward lustre, Moscow is above all a city of broken dreams and unrealised utopias, and all manner of scum oozes through the gap between dream and reality. Moscow Noir is an attempt to turn the tourist Moscow of gingerbread and woodcuts, of glitz and big money, inside out; an attempt to show its fetid womb and make sense of the desolation that reigns there.

The Cambridge Introduction to Thomas Mann

Author : Todd Kontje
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 052176792X
Total Pages : 153 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (217 download)

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Download or read book The Cambridge Introduction to Thomas Mann written by Todd Kontje and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2011 with total page 153 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A succinct introduction to the life and works of Thomas Mann, addressing both his literary texts and his personal life.

Ragged Man

Author : Jack Priest
Publisher : Bootleg Press
ISBN 13 : 9780974524603
Total Pages : 348 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (246 download)

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Download or read book Ragged Man written by Jack Priest and published by Bootleg Press. This book was released on 2003 with total page 348 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Wordsworth Dictionary of Quotations

Author : Connie Robertson
Publisher : Wordsworth Editions
ISBN 13 : 9781853264894
Total Pages : 686 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (648 download)

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Download or read book The Wordsworth Dictionary of Quotations written by Connie Robertson and published by Wordsworth Editions. This book was released on 1998 with total page 686 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Quotations have exercised a particular fascination for humanity since the birth of recorded language and their potency in the age of the soundbite is stronger than ever. We revel in quotations, compete to know them, love them, hate them and inscribe them in books and on buildings, and this freshly revised and updated dictionary includes a wealth of new material among its 13,000 familiar, serious, outrageous, witty and thought-provoking entries.The Wordsworth Dictionary of Quotations is an essential work of reference for every writer, journalist and speech-maker, as well as being a treasure-trove for the browser and the simply curious. From the Roman poet Ovid's observation that 'Judgement of beauty can er, what with the wine and the dark' to Oscar Wilde's that 'Experience is the name everyone gives to their mistakes', there is a wide diversity of sayings to add spice to our conversation and enrich our daily lives. The book is alphabetically arranged by author and indexed by keyword for ease of use.

Ricorso and Revelation

Author : Evans Lansing Smith
Publisher : Camden House
ISBN 13 : 9781571130662
Total Pages : 222 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (36 download)

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Download or read book Ricorso and Revelation written by Evans Lansing Smith and published by Camden House. This book was released on 1995 with total page 222 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ricorso and Revelation traces the impact on Modernism of the archaeological discoveries of the Palace of Knossos, the Royal Cemetery of Ur, and the Tomb of Tutankhamen, and the artifacts recovered from these sites, showing how they entered the narrative strategies of the Modernist movement. The author also develops a new argument about the four myth configurations - the maze, alchemy, the Great Goddess, and the Apocalypse - which were of central importance to the literature of European Modernism between 1895 and 1946, studying their appearances in a wide range of European modernist writers and in the paintings of Picasso and the films of Jean Cocteau. Drawing from a variety of theories on myth, Smith suggests that each of these four myths represents a creative return to the origins (ricorso), a reduction of the raw materials of daily life to the fundamental elements of creation (revelation), followed by a recreation of the world (cosmogenesis), of the poet (ontogenesis), and of the text (poesis/I>).

The Mythic Dimension

Author : Joseph Campbell
Publisher : New World Library
ISBN 13 : 1577315944
Total Pages : 365 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (773 download)

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Download or read book The Mythic Dimension written by Joseph Campbell and published by New World Library. This book was released on 2007 with total page 365 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: These 12 eclectic essays explore the topic for which Campbell was best known: myth and its fascinating context within the human imagination in the arts, literature, and culture, as well as in everyday life.

Magic Mountain (Secret Kingdom #5)

Author : Rosie Banks
Publisher : Scholastic Inc.
ISBN 13 : 0545536294
Total Pages : 88 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (455 download)

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Download or read book Magic Mountain (Secret Kingdom #5) written by Rosie Banks and published by Scholastic Inc.. This book was released on 2014-10-28 with total page 88 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Enter a magical world full of friendship and fun! It's time for best friends Ellie, Summer, and Jasmine to return to the Secret Kingdom and head to the frosty slopes of Magic Mountain! Can they find Queen Malice's fifth enchanted thunderbolt and stop the brownies from turning into icicles?

Understanding Thomas Mann

Author : Hannelore Mundt
Publisher : Univ of South Carolina Press
ISBN 13 : 9781570035371
Total Pages : 286 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (353 download)

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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.

Snow Bear Sanctuary

Author : Rosie Banks
Publisher : Orchard Books
ISBN 13 : 1408326000
Total Pages : 66 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (83 download)

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Download or read book Snow Bear Sanctuary written by Rosie Banks and published by Orchard Books. This book was released on 2013-08-01 with total page 66 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Wicked Queen Malice has cast a spell on Summer's storybook and unleashed all the fairytale baddies into the Secret Kingdom. Ellie, Summer and Jasmine are thrilled to visit the snow brownies' animal sanctuary and help look after all the cute animals. But a hungry ogre has been eating their food! Can the girls catch the ogre, get him back in the book and save the animals?

Orange Coast Magazine

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Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 296 pages
Book Rating : 4./5 ( download)

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Download or read book Orange Coast Magazine written by and published by . This book was released on 2007-12 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Orange Coast Magazine is the oldest continuously published lifestyle magazine in the region, bringing together Orange County¹s most affluent coastal communities through smart, fun, and timely editorial content, as well as compelling photographs and design. Each issue features an award-winning blend of celebrity and newsmaker profiles, service journalism, and authoritative articles on dining, fashion, home design, and travel. As Orange County¹s only paid subscription lifestyle magazine with circulation figures guaranteed by the Audit Bureau of Circulation, Orange Coast is the definitive guidebook into the county¹s luxe lifestyle.