Thomas Mann and Shakespeare

Name: Thomas Mann and Shakespeare
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SKU: 9781501336089
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Series: New Directions in German Studies

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Thomas Mann and Shakespeare is a pioneering study exploring the profound and sometimes unsettling connections between the works of Thomas Mann and William Shakespeare. It draws parallels between key texts, pairing Der Zauberberg with The Tempest, Der Tod in Venedig with The Merchant of Venice, Tonio Kröger with Othello, and Love's Labour's Lost with Doktor Faustus. The book opens up new perspectives on themes such as modernity, irony, art, desire, authorship and religion, challenging traditional literary specialisms and offering innovative approaches to reading.
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This book will appeal to scholars and enthusiasts of literature, particularly those interested in comparative studies, modernist literature, and Shakespearean scholarship. It suits readers seeking deep critical engagement with literary analysis and cultural history.

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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 Kröger 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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Heinrich Detering, President of the German Academy for Language and Literature, praises the book for addressing the long-overlooked dialogue between Mann and Shakespeare, calling Shakespeare 'the most tremendous case of poetic genius the world has ever seen.' The book is recognised for opening fresh insights into this significant literary conversation. Reviews highlight the authors' exploration of literature’s profound and sometimes dangerous political and aesthetic reflections on Western history.

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INFORMATION

ISBN: 9781501336089

Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing Plc

Format: Paperback / softback

Date Published: 24 August 2017

Country: United States

Imprint: Bloomsbury Academic

Illustration: 4 b/w illustrations

Contributors:

Edited by Ewan Fernie
Edited by Tobias Döring

Audience: Tertiary education

DIMENSIONS

Spine width: 18.0mm

Width: 134.0mm

Height: 214.0mm

Weight: 300g

Pages: 280

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Arts & Culture Non-Fiction Series: New Directions in German Studies

About the Author

Tobias Döring is Chair of English Literature, LMU München, Germany, and past President of the German Shakespeare Society. His latest books are (ed. with Virginia Mason Vaughan) Critical and Cultural Transformations: Shakespeare’s The Tempest – 1611 to the Present and (ed. with Mark Stein) Edward Said’s Translocations: Essays in Secular Criticism.

Ewan Fernie is Chair, Professor and Fellow at the Shakespeare Institute, University of Birmingham, UK. His latest book, The Demonic: Literature and Experience, gives considerable attention to Shakespeare and Mann.

Thomas Mann and Shakespeare