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"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"-- Machine generated contents note: -- 1. Introduction -- Tobias Döring (LMU München, Germany) and Ewan Fernie (University of Birmingham, UK) -- 2. The magic fountain: Shakespeare, Mann, and modern authorship -- Tobias Döring (LMU München, Germany) -- 3. 'A dark exception among the rule-abiding': Mann's Othello -- Friedhelm Marx (Universität Bamberg, Germany) -- 4. 'Who chooseth me must give and hazard all he hath': Shakespearean overtones in Mann's Der Tod in Venedig -- John Hamilton (Harvard University, USA) -- 5. Yearnings and regressions: Shakespeare, Wagner, Mann -- Dave Paxton (University of Birmingham, UK) -- 6. The music of laughter: Shakespearean love-comedy in Mann's Doktor Faustus -- Alexander Honold (Universität Basel, Switzerland) -- 7. Gravity's revolt: Shakespeare as Mann's guilty party -- Richard Wilson (University of Kingston, UK) -- 8. Reading ahead and sliding back: the American Thomas Mann and Shakespeare's all-American lesbian fan club -- Heather Love (University of Pennsylvania, USA) -- 9. Hans Castorp as Shakespeare critic -- David Fuller (University of Durham, UK) -- 10. The violence of desire: Shakespeare, Nietzsche, Mann -- Jonathan Dollimore (University of York, UK) -- 11.'Yes-yes, no': Affirmation in Joseph und seine Brüder and As You Like It -- Ewan Fernie (University of Birmingham, UK) -- 12. Triangulation: Shakespeare, Mann, and I -- Ulrike Draesner (writer and translator, Berlin, Germany) -- 13. Afterword -- Elisabeth Bronfen (Universität Zürich, Switzerland)
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