Thomas mann and shakespeare: something rich and strange

Table of Contents:

Acknowledgements

Introduction: Something Rich and Strange

1. The Violence of Desire: Shakespeare, Nietzsche, Mann Jonathan Dollimore

2. Laughter in the Throat of Death: Thomas Mann’s Shakespearean Sprachkrise Richard Wilson

3. Masquerades of Love: Love’s Labour’s Lost and the Musical Development of Shakespeare’s Comedy in Mann’s Doktor Faustus Alexander Honold

4. The Magic Fountain: Shakespeare, Mann and Modern Authorship Tobias Doring

5. ‘A dark exception among the rule-abiding’: Thomas Mann and Othello Friedhelm Marx

6. ‘Who chooseth me must give and hazard all he hath’: Shakespearean Overtones in Mann’s Der Tod in Venedig John T. Hamilton

7. Shakespeare to Mann, via Wagner Dave Paxton

8. ‘Yes—yes, no’: Mann, Shakespeare and the Struggle for Affirmation Ewan Fernie

9. Teenage Fanclub: Mann and Shakespeare in the Queer Pantheon Heather Love

10. A Kind of Loving: Hans Castorp as Model Critic David Fuller

11. Changing the Subject Ulrike Draesner

Afterword Elisabeth Bronfen

Index

"In Doktor Faustus, Thomas Mann associated Shakespeare with the Devil and the demonic guilt of Nazism. Bringing together major scholars from diverse disciplines and countries, this is the first ever 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 Kröger with Othello, as well as Love's Labour's Lost with Doktor Faustus. It shows how the conjunction of Shakespeare and Mann affords new, alternative perspectives on fundamental issues such as modernity, irony, art, desire, authorship and religion. In the process, it demonstrates the scope for new ways of reading in literary studies in general, by renewing European intellectual connections in the wake of postcolonialism, and challenging the increasingly walled-in specialism of literary topics and periodization"--

"The first ever comparative reading of Shakespeare and Thomas Mann in view of key questions in modern culture"

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