Zwischen Mythos und Moderne Honold, Alexander; Bauer, Matthias; Bauer, Matthias ...
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Die Josephs-Tetralogie steht – gewaltiger noch als Der Zauberberg – wie ein Zentralmassiv in der literarischen Landschaft des 20. Jahrhunderts, das viele nur ehrfurchtsvoll aus der Ferne bestaunen, ...was angesichts des Bildungs- und Unterhaltungswertes gerades dieses Erzählwerkes höchst bedauerlich ist. Diejenigen, die sich diesem Werk nähern und den Versuch unternehmen, die Bedeutungstiefe der von Thomas Mann aufgeschichteten Stoffmassen zu durchdringen, sind gut beraten, sich an die Selbstauskünfte des Autors zu halten: Er hat in Tagebüchern, Briefen und Reden die Sedimente der Fach- und Sachbücher zur antiken Welt, zur Ägyptologie und zur Religionsgeschichte freigelegt, die von ihm im Schreibprozess konsultiert worden waren, und immer wieder auf die zeitgeschichtlichen Bezüge seines Werkes verwiesen. Der vorliegende Band folgt diesen Spuren des Dichters in Beiträgen von Alexander Honold, Iulia-Karin Patrut, Matthias Bauer, Markus Pohlmeyer, Martina Schönbächler und Vikica Matić.
In Thomas Mann's War, Tobias Boes traces how the acclaimed and bestselling author became one of America's most prominent anti-fascists and the spokesperson for a German cultural ideal that Nazism had ...perverted.Thomas Mann, winner of the 1929 Nobel Prize in literature and author of such world-renowned novels as Buddenbrooks and The Magic Mountain, began his self-imposed exile in the United States in 1938, having fled his native Germany in the wake of Nazi persecution and public burnings of his books. Mann embraced his role as a public intellectual, deftly using his literary reputation and his connections in an increasingly global publishing industry to refute Nazi propaganda. As Boes shows, Mann undertook successful lecture tours of the country and penned widely-read articles that alerted US audiences and readers to the dangers of complacency in the face of Nazism's existential threat. Spanning four decades, from the eve of World War I, when Mann was first translated into English, to 1952, the year in which he left an America increasingly disfigured by McCarthyism, Boes establishes Mann as a significant figure in the wartime global republic of letters.
Thomas Mann owes his place in world literature to the dissemination of his works through translation. Indeed, it was the monumental success of the original English translations that earned him the ...title of 'the greatest living man of letters' during his years in American exile (1938-52). This book provides the first systematic exploration of the English versions, illustrating the vicissitudes of literary translation through a principled discussion of a major author. The study illuminates the contexts in which the translations were produced before exploring the transformations Mann's work has undergone in the process of transfer. An exemplary analysis of selected textual dimensions demonstrates the multiplicity of factors which impinge upon literary translation, leading far beyond the traditional preoccupation with issues of equivalence. Thomas Mann in English thus fills a gap both in translation studies, where Thomas Mann serves as a constant but ill-defined point of reference, and in literary studies, which has focused increasingly on the author's wider reception.
Gérard Genettes erzähltheoretische Systematisierung zur Analyse narrativer Texte hat in der Literaturtheorie einen kritischen Diskurs angestoßen. Vor allem die als metaphorisch verstandene narrative ...Kategorie der „Stimme“ und die Fokalisierungstypologie werden lebhaft diskutiert. Unter dem Aspekt der Neusortierung von Genettes Kriterien zur Differenzierung der Fokalisierungstypen präsentiert Gabriele Schega eine umformulierte Fokalisierungstypologie, die in einer neuen merkmalgebundenen Taxonomie mündet. Sie untersucht zudem, inwiefern die systemimmanente Erweiterung der Kategorie der „Stimme“ auch das informationspolitische Engagement des Erzählers innerhalb der Erzählung analytisch erfassen kann. Überprüft und belegt werden diese Umformulierungen im System Genettes anhand von Thomas Manns Roman Bekenntnisse des Hochstaplers Felix Krull. Der Memoiren erster Teil.
Gabriele Schega hat Sprechwissenschaft und Sprecherziehung (Abschluss: DGSS) sowie Literaturwissenschaft, Linguistik und Komparatistik (Abschluss: MA) an der Universität des Saarlandes in Saarbrücken studiert und mit der vorliegenden Arbeit ebenda promoviert. Sie ist seit 1997 als selbstständige Sprechwissenschaftlerin, Referentin und Dozentin tätig.
Thomas Mann’s “musical novel”, Doctor Faustus, tells the life story of Adrian Leverkühn, a composer to whom the Devil makes an offer of fame achieved by the discovery of a groundbreaking ...compositional technique. Mann conceived the plot as an allegory of music’s alluring and perilous role in German history, as the doom eventually met by Leverkühn is a projection of the final collapse of Nazi Germany. According to one of various schools of thought, the character of Leverkühn and his compositional output correspond with the person as well as certain aspects of the work of Gustav Mahler. The present article aims at linking up with this interpretation, along with offering a more general reflection on the essence of Mahler’s music by confronting it with the ideas expounded in Mann’s novel.
This article focuses on Thomas Mann’s autobiographical essay about his dog in the light of his early fiction and wartime journalism. Herr und Hund represents not only an idyllic retreat from troubled ...times but also an ongoing engagement with themes central to Mann’s creative prose and cultural politics, including distinctions between human reason and animal passions, alleged racial differences among humans, and relations between nature and civilization. Issues currently cordoned off into the discrete categories of animal, environmental, and critical race studies inform one another in Mann’s multi-faceted essay. Herr und Hund marks both an end to the reflections that preoccupied Mann during the war and their continuation by other means, revisiting themes that inspire his earliest prose and will continue to inform his political thought and creative practice for years to come.
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