Thomas Mann and Shakespeare : something rich and strange
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Thomas Mann and Shakespeare : something rich and strange
（New directions in German studies, v. 14）
Bloomsbury Academic, 2017, c2015
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"This volume started life as a remakable conference, generously supported by the Center for Advanced Studies, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München." -- P. [vii]
Includes bibliographical references and index
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Bringing together scholars from diverse disciplines and countries, Thomas Mann and Shakespeare is the first book-length study to explore the always fascinating, if sometimes disturbing, connections between Shakespeare and Mann. It establishes startling resonances between the central works of these two authors, pairing, for instance, Der Zauberberg with The Tempest, Der Tod in Venedig with The Merchant of Venice, Tonio Kroeger with Othello and Love's Labour's Lost with Doktor Faustus. Showing how the conjunction of Shakespeare and Mann affords new, alternative perspectives on fundamental issues such as modernity, irony, art, desire, authorship and religion, Thomas Mann and Shakespeare challenges the increasingly walled-in specialism of literary topics and periodization and demonstrates the scope for new ways of reading in literary studies.
Table of Contents
Acknowledgements
Notes on Contributors
Introduction: Something Rich and Strange (with A Note on
Mann's Shakespeare, by Tobias Doering, LMU Munchen, Germany)
Ewan Fernie (University of Birmingham, UK)
1 The Violence of Desire: Shakespeare, Nietzsche, Mann
Jonathan Dollimore (University of York, UK)
2 Laughter in the Throat of Death: Thomas Mann's
Shakespearean Sprachkrise
Richard Wilson (University of Kingston, UK)
3 Masquerades of Love: Love's Labours's Lost and the Musical
Development of Shakespeare's Comedy in Mann's Doktor
Faustus
Alexander Honold (Universitat Basel, Switzerland)
4 The Magic Fountain: Shakespeare, Mann and Modern
Authorship
Tobias Doering (LMU Munchen, Germany)
5 'A dark exception among the rule-abiding': Thomas Mann
and Othello
Friedhelm Marx (Universitat Bamberg, Germany)
6 'Who chooseth me must give and hazard all he hath':
Shakespearean Overtones in Mann's Der Tod in Venedig
John T. Hamilton (Harvard University, USA)
7 Shakespeare to Mann, via Wagner
Dave Paxton (University of Birmingham, UK)
8 'Yes-yes, no': Mann, Shakespeare, and the Struggle for
Affirmation
Ewan Fernie (University of Birmingham, UK)
9 Teenage Fanclub: Mann and Shakespeare in the Queer
Pantheon
Heather Love (University of Pennsylvania, USA)
10 A Kind of Loving: Hans Castorp as Model Critic 207
David Fuller (University of Durham, UK)
11 Changing the Subject
Ulrike Draesner (writer and translator, Berlin, Germany)
Afterword
Elisabeth Bronfen (Universitat Zurich, Switzerland)
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