Includes bibliographical references (p. [157]-192) and index.
Contents:
Teaching Mann's short fiction / Roderick Stackelberg -- Philosophizing and poetic license in Mann's early fiction / Adrian Del Caro -- Mann and Wagner / Steven R. Cerf -- Gender, sexuality, and identity in Mann's short fiction / Robert K. Martin -- Humor and comedy in Mann's short fiction / Werner Hoffmeister -- Jugendstil in Mann's early short fiction / Edith Potter -- 'Death in Venice' and the tradtion of European decadence / Naomi Ritter -- Mann and the modernist tradition / Gerald Gillespie -- Psychoanalysis, freud, and Thomas Mann / Jeffrey B. Berlin -- Teaching Tonio Kröger as literature about literature / Beverley Driver Eddy -- Tonio Kröger's conversation with Lisaweta Iwanowna / Rodney Symington -- 'Death in Venice' as psychohistory / Edward Timms -- Plato and Nietzche in 'Death in Venice' / Susan von Rohr Scaff -- Visconti's cinematic version of 'Death in Venice' / John Francis Fetzer.
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