Thomas Mann and Shakespeare : Something Rich and Strange - Tobias Döring

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Thomas Mann and Shakespeare

Something Rich and Strange

By: Tobias Döring (Editor), Ewan Fernie (Editor)

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Paperback | 24 August 2017

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280 Pages

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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 Kr¶ger with Othello and Loveâs Labourâs 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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When Thomas Mann speaks of 'the most tremendous case of poetic genius the world has ever seen', he is referring not to Homer, nor to Goethe - but to Shakespeare. It is strange that this important identification has been so little heeded or seriously examined for so long. At last the present book makes up for such neglect, opening our eyes to the truly 'tremendous case' of one of the great dialogues of world literature.

[Wenn Thomas Mann ¼ber den 'den ungeheuersten Fall von Dichtertum' spricht, 'den die Erde sah', dann spricht er weder von Homer noch von Goethe, sondern von Shakespeare. Es ist eigenartig, wie lange dieses Diktum kaum geh¶rt und wie selten es ernst genommen wurde. Dass das Vers¤umte mit diesem Buch endlich nachgeholt wird, ¶ffnet den Blick auf den wahrhaft 'ungeheuren Fall' eines Dialogs von weltliterarischem Ausma?.]
Heinrich Detering, President of the German Academy for Language and Literature, and chief editor of the Great Annotated Frankfurter Edition of the works of Thomas Mann

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