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The world-famous masterpiece by Nobel laureate Thomas Mann -- here in a new translation by Michael Henry Heim
Published on the eve of World War I, a decade after "Buddenbrooks" had established Thomas Mann as a literary celebrity, "Death in Venice" tells the story of Gustav von Aschenbach, a successful but aging writer who follows his wanderlust to Venice in search of spiritual fulfillment that instead leads to his erotic doom.
In the decaying city, besieged by an unnamed epidemic, he becomes obsessed with an exquisite Polish boy, Tadzio. "It is a story of the voluptuousness of doom," Mann wrote. "But the problem I had especially in mind was that of the artist's dignity."
| About the Series | |
| About This Volume | |
| Death in Venice: The Complete Text | |
| Introduction: Biographical and Historical Contexts | |
| The Complete Text [Translated by David Luke] | |
| Death in Venice: A Case Study in Contemporary Criticism | |
| Critical History of Death in Venice | |
| Psychoanalytic Criticism and Death in Venice | |
| What Is Psychoanalytic Criticism? | |
| Psychoanalytic Criticism: A Selected Bibliography | |
| A Psychoanalytic Perspective: | |
| The Eruption of the Other: Psychoanalytic Approaches to Death in Venice | |
| Reader-Response Criticism and Death in Venice | |
| What Is Reader-Response Criticism? | |
| Reader-Response Criticism: A Selected Bibliography | |
| A Reader-Response Perspective: | |
| The Potential Deceptiveness of Reading in Death in Venice | |
| Cultural Criticism and Death in Venice | |
| What Is Cultural Criticism? | |
| Cultural Criticism: A Selected Bibliography | |
| A Cultural Perspective: | |
| Why Is Tadzio Polish? Kultur and Cultural Multiplicity in Death in Venice | |
| Gender Criticism and Death in Venice | |
| What Is Gender Criticism? | |
| Gender Criticism: A Selected Bibliography | |
| A Perspective on Gender and Sexuality | |
| The Life and Work of Thomas Mann: A Gay Perspective | |
| New Historicism and Death in Venice | |
| What Is New Historicism? | |
| New Historicism: A Selected Bibliography | |
| A New Historicist Perspective: | |
| History and Community in Death in Venice | |
| Glossary of Critical and Theoretical Terms | |
| About the Contributors | |
| Table of Contents provided by Publisher. All Rights Reserved. |
ISBN: 9780060576172
ISBN-10: 0060576170
Audience:
General
Format:
Paperback
Language:
English
Number Of Pages: 142
Published: 31st May 2005
Dimensions (cm): 20.2 x 14.6
x 1.0
Weight (kg): 0.484
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