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Thomas Mann's Joseph and His Brothers: Writing, Performance, and the Politics of Loyalty (Studies in German Literature Linguistics and Culture): 1 Hardcover – 2 July 1999
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McDonald's study offers fresh insights into Mann's Joseph tetralogy in two ways. Beginning with Mann's well documented love for public performance, he rereads the Joseph novels as a script, showing how performance figures prominently in the form as well as the substance of the narrative. Then he interprets several of the essay-lectures composed during the Joseph years (1926-1943), emphasizing their performative qualities and their conscious (and subliminal) interweavings with the novel. Mann's passionate re-enactment of Kleist's play "Amphitryon" in his 1927 lecture provided a model of identity that he developed fully in Joseph. The model also helped him contain the more pessimistic account of identity he encountered in Freud. The Freud lectures of 1929 and 1936 develop psychoanalysis as an Enlightenment project useful in combating the irrationalism of the Nazis, and carefully control its darker aspects.
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290 pages
Language
English
Publisher
Camden House
Publication date
2 July 1999
Dimensions
15.24 x 1.75 x 22.86 cm
ISBN-10
157113154X
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McDonald provides us with a fresh look at Mann's Joseph novel as a performative text. Mann liked to read his texts aloud and enjoyed the reactions of his audience, and he also enjoyed being on the podium delivering his public speeches. McDonald discovers new and surprising relationships between the cultural and political messages in some of Mann's lectures and the Joseph text. --Herbert Lehnert, University of California.
Demonstrates in a very readable text the importance of the interworkings of essay and narration in the works of Thomas Mann. ETUDES GERMANIQUES' McDonald's study may well be able to transform the attitude of those who are sceptical about Thomas Mann into something approaching delight.' MODERN LANGUAGE REVIEW --Various
McDonald's study of Joseph and His Brothers breaks exciting new ground. He gives us Thomas Mann the performer, a writer who wrote in order to perform his work at every opportunity, from the family circle to large audiences across Europe. Seeing the Joseph tetralogy as a script as well as a text opens up new interpretive territory. --R. W. Burda, University of Maryland, Heidelberg
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Publisher : Camden House (2 July 1999)
Language : English
Hardcover : 290 pages
ISBN-10 : 157113154X
ISBN-13 : 978-1571131546
Dimensions : 15.24 x 1.75 x 22.86 cmCustomer Reviews:
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5.0 out of 5 stars William E. McDonald makes Thomas Mann relevant to our dayReviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on 30 March 2014
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Reading William E. McDonald, "Thomas Mann's Joseph and His Brothers" deepens my appreciation of Mann, which I first read 60 years ago in a German literature course at Haverford College. By paying close attention to Mann's lectures, as well as his published writings, McDonald clarifies just how well Mann addressed the conflict in the German youth of the early 1930s, between their attraction to Weimar democracy, on the one hand, and yet also to nationalistic fascism on the other, with its parades, its stilted robot-like arms swinging high, and its false, delusional promises of a rise again of the German nation.
Against that background we can understand even better the despotic actions in the present day of Putin in the Ukraine... In addition, McDonald puts the psychoanalyst Sigmund Freud in a remarkably new perspective, in his role as champion of anti-Nazi enlightenment. This book is an important re-visiting of a critical historical period, shedding light on the struggles of our own time.
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