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Author : Tobias D�ring
Release : 2017-08-24
Genre : Literary Criticism
Kind : eBook
Book Rating : 088/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Thomas Mann and Shakespeare by : Tobias D�ring
Download or read book Thomas Mann and Shakespeare written by Tobias D�ring. This book was released on 2017-08-24. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The first ever comparative reading of Shakespeare and Thomas Mann in view of key questions in modern culture"--
Author : Ewan Fernie
Release : 2015
Genre : Comparative literature
Kind : eBook
Book Rating : 247/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Thomas Mann and Shakespeare by : Ewan Fernie
Download or read book Thomas Mann and Shakespeare written by Ewan Fernie. This book was released on 2015. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first ever comparative reading of Shakespeare and Thomas Mann in view of key questions in modern culture
Author : Rodney Symington
Release : 2011-09-22
Genre : Fiction
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Book Rating : 033/5 ( reviews)
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 : Irvin Leigh Matus
Release : 2013-09-05
Genre : Drama
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Book Rating : 790/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Shakespeare, In Fact by : Irvin Leigh Matus
Download or read book Shakespeare, In Fact written by Irvin Leigh Matus. This book was released on 2013-09-05. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Virtuoso presentation of available evidence of the Bard's life. "Written with wit and panache, this erudite tome dismantles the arguments claiming that someone other than Shakespeare wrote his plays." — Publishers Weekly.
Author : Frederic Spotts
Release : 2016-04-26
Genre : Biography & Autobiography
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Book Rating : 979/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Cursed Legacy by : Frederic Spotts
Download or read book Cursed Legacy written by Frederic Spotts. This book was released on 2016-04-26. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Son of the famous Thomas Mann, homosexual, drug-addicted, and forced to flee from his fatherland, the gifted writer Klaus Mann’s comparatively short life was as artistically productive as it was devastatingly dislocated. Best-known today as the author of Mephisto, the literary enfant terrible of the Weimar era produced seven novels, a dozen plays, four biographies, and three autobiographies—among them the first works in Germany to tackle gay issues—amidst a prodigious artistic output. He was among the first to take up his pen against the Nazis, as a reward for which he was blacklisted and denounced as a dangerous half-Jew, his books burnt in public squares around Germany, and his citizenship revoked. Having served with the U.S. military in Italy, he was nevertheless undone by anti-Communist fanatics in Cold War-era America and Germany, dying in France (though not, as all other books contend, by his own hand) at age forty-two. Powerful, revealing, and compulsively readable, this first English-language biography of Klaus Mann charts the effects of reactionary politics on art and literature and tells the moving story of a supreme talent destroyed by personal circumstance and the seismic events of the twentieth century.
