AS 213.426 - Thomas Mann

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Johns Hopkins University

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The course will be taught in German. In this course we will explore one of the most fascinating German authors of the 20th century. Exceptional in its stylistic elegance, its irony and coldness, Mann's prose addresses major topics of modernism such as the tension between rationality and passion, between artistic and bourgeois existence, between modernity and myth. In close readings of selected novellas and novels (excerpts), we will analyze Mann's rhetorical style, his narrative technique of leitmotif and the intertextuality of his prose; further we will examine the substantial relationship of Mann's writing to philosophy (Schopenhauer, Nietzsche), medicine, psychoanalysis, and music (Wagner, Schönberg).

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3.00

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Lecture

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Institution Website:

www.jhu.edu

Phone Number:

(410) 516-8000

Regional Accreditation:

Middle States Association of Colleges and Schools

Calendar System:

Semester

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