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Author : Stephen D. Dowden
Release : 1999
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Book Synopsis A Companion to Thomas Mann's The Magic Mountain by : Stephen D. Dowden
Download or read book A Companion to Thomas Mann's The Magic Mountain written by Stephen D. Dowden. This book was released on 1999. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Rodney Symington
Release : 2011-09-22
Genre : Fiction
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Book Synopsis Thomas Mann’s The Magic Mountain by : Rodney Symington
Download or read book Thomas Mann’s The Magic Mountain written by Rodney Symington. This book was released on 2011-09-22. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Thomas Mann’s novel The Magic Mountain presents a panorama of European society in the first two decades of the 20th century and depicts the philosophical and metaphysical dilemmas facing people in the modern age. In the years leading up to the First World War, the fundamental elements of human nature were thrown into sharp relief by the political tensions that resulted in the ultimate metaphor for the innate destructiveness of humankind: the War itself. If such a war is the true expression of human tendencies, what hope is there for the future? Through the figure of the main character of the novel, Thomas Mann explores the alternative philosophies of life available to human beings in the modern age, and invites the reader to undertake a personal odyssey of discovery, with a view to adopting a positive approach in an era that seems to offer no clear-cut answers. This book is a comprehensive commentary on Thomas Mann’s seminal novel, one of the key literary artefacts of the 20th century. The author has taken upon himself the task of explaining all the references and allusions contained in the novel, and of providing readers who know little or no German with enough explanatory comment to enable them to understand the novel and extract the maximum reading pleasure from it.
Author : Stephen D. Dowden
Release : 2002
Genre : Literary Criticism
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Book Synopsis A Companion to Thomas Mann's The Magic Mountain by : Stephen D. Dowden
Download or read book A Companion to Thomas Mann's The Magic Mountain written by Stephen D. Dowden. This book was released on 2002. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Thomas Mann once told Susan Sontag that he considered The Magic Mountain to be his greatest novel. And few in his own day doubted the preeminence of this modernist classic. But many have argued that the age of literary modernism has passed. If this is so, how might we best understand Mann's masterpiece now? In this book of wide-ranging and original essays, which also includes a memoir of Thomas Mann by Susan Sontag, various scholars and critics explore the meanings of The Magic Mountain for the contemporary imagination.
Author : Gale, Cengage Learning
Release : 2015-03-13
Genre : Literary Criticism
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Book Synopsis A study guide for Thomas Mann's "The Magic Mountain" by : Gale, Cengage Learning
Download or read book A study guide for Thomas Mann's "The Magic Mountain" written by Gale, Cengage Learning. This book was released on 2015-03-13. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A study guide for Thomas Mann's "The Magic Mountain", excerpted from Gale's acclaimed Novels for Students series. This concise study guide includes plot summary; character analysis; author biography; study questions; historical context; suggestions for further reading; and much more. For any literature project, trust Novels for Students for all of your research needs.
Author : Alex Ross
Release : 2007-10-16
Genre : Music
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Book Rating : 880/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis The Rest Is Noise by : Alex Ross
Download or read book The Rest Is Noise written by Alex Ross. This book was released on 2007-10-16. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Winner of the 2007 National Book Critics Circle Award for Criticism A New York Times Book Review Top Ten Book of the Year Time magazine Top Ten Nonfiction Book of 2007 Newsweek Favorite Books of 2007 A Washington Post Book World Best Book of 2007 In this sweeping and dramatic narrative, Alex Ross, music critic for The New Yorker, weaves together the histories of the twentieth century and its music, from Vienna before the First World War to Paris in the twenties; from Hitler's Germany and Stalin's Russia to downtown New York in the sixties and seventies up to the present. Taking readers into the labyrinth of modern style, Ross draws revelatory connections between the century's most influential composers and the wider culture. The Rest Is Noise is an astonishing history of the twentieth century as told through its music.
