Thomas Mann and Shakespeare: Something Rich and Strange

ISBN-13: 9781628922097 / Angielski / Twarda / 2015 / 280 str.

Tobias Doring; Ewan Fernie

Opis

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 Kroger 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."

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Acknowledgements Notes on Contributors Introduction: Something Rich and Strange (with A Note on Mann’s Shakespeare, by Tobias Döring, LMU München, 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 (Universität Basel, Switzerland) 4 The Magic Fountain: Shakespeare, Mann and Modern Authorship Tobias Döring (LMU München, Germany) 5 ‘A dark exception among the rule-abiding’: Thomas Mann and Othello Friedhelm Marx (Universität 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 (Universität Zürich, Switzerland)