Thomas Mann's war : literature, politics, and the world republic of letters / by Boes, Tobias, 1976-

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First Letters After Exile by Thomas Mann, Hannah Arendt, Ernst Bloch, and Others.

Table of Contents: “…<P>David Kettler, The "First Letters" Exile Project: Introduction; Detlef Garz "That I will return, my friend, you do not believe yourself", Karl Wolfskehl -- Exul Poe; Leonore Krenzlin, "I do not lift a stone." Thomas Mann's "First Letter" to Walter von Molo; Reinhard Mehring, Faust Narrative and Impossibility Thesis: Thomas Mann's Answer to Walter van Molo; Thomas Meyer, "That I am not allowed for a moment to forget the ocean of blood": Hans-Georg Gadamer and Leo Strauss in their first letters after 1946; Moritz Mutter/ Falko Schmieder. …”
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Doctor Faustus : the life of the German composer, Adrian Leverkühn, as told by a friend / by Mann, Thomas, 1875-1955

Warm brothers : queer theory and the age of Goethe / by Tobin, Robert Deam

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Peripheral desires : the German discovery of sex / by Tobin, Robert Deam

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Beyond posthumanism : the German humanist tradition and the future of the humanities / by Mathäs, Alexander, 1951-

Table of Contents: “…Humanism and Ideology: Thomas Mann's Writings (1914-30) --…”
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Essays on music and language in modernist literature : musical modernism /

Table of Contents: “…A strict arrangement : Thomas Mann, Doctor Faustus, and the Kretzschmar lectures /…”

Dislocation and reorientation : exile, division, and the end of communism in German culture and politics : in honour of Ian Wallace /

Table of Contents: “…Westernisation, Europeanisation, and civil society: Has Thomas Mann's vision of a European Germany come true? …”
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Secularization Without End : Beckett, Mann, Coetzee / by Pecora, Vincent P., 1953-

Table of Contents: “…Introduction: Secularization and the history of the novel -- Martin Heidegger, John Calvin, and Samuel Beckett -- Thomas Mann, Augustine, and the "Death of God" -- The ambivalent puritan: J.M. …”
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Secularization Without End : Beckett, Mann, Coetzee / by Pecora, Vincent P., 1953-

Table of Contents: “…Introduction: Secularization and the history of the novel -- Martin Heidegger, John Calvin, and Samuel Beckett -- Thomas Mann, Augustine, and the "Death of God" -- The ambivalent puritan: J.M. …”

The transparent body : a cultural analysis of medical imaging / by Dijck, José van

Table of Contents: “…Mediated bodies and the ideal of transparency -- The operation film as a mediated freak show -- Bodyworlds: the art of plastinated cadavers -- Fantastic voyages in the age of endoscopy -- X-ray vision in Thomas Mann's Magic mountain -- Ultrasound and the visible fetus -- Digital cadavers and virtual dissection.…”
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Kenneth Burke in Greenwich Village : conversing with the moderns, 1915-1931 / by Selzer, Jack

Table of Contents: “…Introduction -- Overview: a Flaubert in Greenwich Village -- Burke among others: the early poetry -- Thomas Mann, the little magazines, and Burke's short fiction -- At the dial -- And up against Dada -- Counter-statement as counter statement -- Conclusion: conversing with modernism in towards a better life.…”
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Beyond discontent : "sublimation" from Goethe to Lacan / by Goebel, Eckart

Table of Contents: “…Foreword and Acknowledgments; Preface; 1 Trilogy of Passion: Goethe as Paradigm and Provocation; 2 The Sound of Psychoanalysis: Arthur Schopenhauer; 3 Transfigured Physis: Friedrich Nietzsche; 4 Self-Control: Sigmund Freud; 5 Walking the Dog: Creaturely Transcendence in Thomas Mann; 6 The Sublimation of Nature: Theodor W. …”
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The Italian Renaissance in the German historical imagination, 1860-1930 / by Ruehl, Martin A., 1970-

Table of Contents: “…Introduction: Quattrocento Florence and what it means to be modern -- "An uncanny re-awakening" : Nietzsche's renascence of the Renaissance out of the spirit of Jacob Burckhardt -- Death in Florence : Thomas Mann and the ideologies of Renaissancismus -- "The first modern man on the throne" : Reich, race, and rule in Ernst Kantorowicz's Frederick the Second -- The Renaissance reclaimed : Burgerhumanismus and the forging of the Baron thesis -- Conclusion: The waning of the Renaissance : Death and after-life of an idea.…”
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Music and myth in modern literature / by Torabi, Josh

Table of Contents: “…The Pact : Music and Myth in Thomas Mann's Doctor Faustus Demonic Origins Mann and Myth Part I: Adrian Leverkühn's Education Kretzschmar's Lectures Part II: Why Adrian Leverkühn Writes Such Good Music The Early Works Apocalypse Now! …”

Literary impostors : Canadian autofiction of the early twentieth century / by Heidenreich, Rosmarin Elfriede, 1943-

Table of Contents: “…Cover; Copyright; Contents; Illustrations; Acknowledgments; Introduction; 1 Felix Paul Greve / Frederick Philip Grove: Being and Becoming; 2 In Search of Frederick Philip Grove; 3 Archie Belaney alias Wa-Sha-Quon-Asin, or Grey Owl; 4 Will James: A Lone Cowboy from Quebec; 5 The "Professional Indian": Chief Buffalo Child Long Lance; 6 Hybrid Identities: The Eaton Sisters; Conclusion; Appendix FPG and the Thomas Mann Connection; Notes; Bibliography.…”
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Musical biographies : the music of memory in post-1945 German literature / by Ben-Horin, Michal

Table of Contents: “…Overture : German catastrophe and the rebirth of musical biography -- Thomas Mann : dissonance as a mode of documentation -- Interlude I. …”
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Genesis : the making of literary works from Homer to Christa Wolf / by Reed, T. J. 1937-

Table of Contents: “…Front Cover -- Contents -- Note on Quotations and Translations -- Preface -- Introduction: Processes -- Homer's Audiences: Shaping the Iliad (and the Odyssey) -- Fourfold Genesis: The Bible between Literature and Authority -- An Alphabet of Experience: Montaigne -- Beginner's Luck: Shakespeare's History Cycles -- Transition-Tradition -- Cross-Purposes: Goethe's Faust -- Occasions: Goethe's Lyric Poetry -- Live and Learn: Werther and Wilhelm Meister -- Writing on the Run: Georg Büchner's Revolutions -- "The Best-Laid Schemes. . .": Thomas Mann Unplanned…”
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Zwischen Offenbarung und metaphysischer Losigkeit : Philosophisch-theologische Lektüre literarischer Jenseitsreisen. by Bräutigam, Antonia

Table of Contents: “…2.2 Fjodor Michailowitsch Dostojewski: Traum eines lächerlichen Menschen2.3 Franz Werfel: Stern der Ungeborenen; 2.4 David Lindsay: Die Reise zum Arcturus; 2.5 Hermann Kasack: Die Stadt hinter dem Strom; 2.6 Thomas Mann: Der Zauberberg; 2.7 Samuel Beckett: Der Verwaiser; 3 Ergebnis: Funktion und Bedeutung der Jenseitsreise in der Literatur der Moderne; V. …”
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1930 : Europe in the shadow of the beast / by Haberman, Arthur, 1938-

Table of Contents: “…Cover; Half Title; Title; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; Introduction; Prologue: Europeans, 1930; 1 Thomas Mann: The Uncanny and Its Power; 2 Virginia Woolf: Transcending; 3 José Ortega y Gasset: Rethinking the West; 4 Bertolt Brecht and Kurt Weill: Rethinking Theatre, Remaking Opera; 5 L'âme noir: The Black Soul in the City of Light; 6 L.H.O.O.Q.: Painting in 1930; 7 Aldous Huxley: Fearing the Future; 8 Sigmund Freud: The Fragility of Civilization; 9 Yesterday and Today; Epilogue: Europeans Today; Acknowledgements; Notes; Bibliographical Notes; Additional Reading; Index; A; B; C; D; E; F…”
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