Thomas Mann's Death in Venice: A Novella and Its Critics

by Ellis Shookman

Book Overview

Thomas Mann's 1912 novella Death in Venice is one of the most famous and widely read texts in all of modern literature, raising such issues as beauty and decadence, eros and irony, and aesthetics and morality. The amount and variety of criticism on the work is enormous, and ranges from psychoanalytic criticism and readings inspired by Mann's own homosexuality to inquiries into the place of the novella in Mann's oeuvre, its structure and style, and...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 157113056X
• ISBN13: 9781571130563
• Release Date: June 2003
• Publisher: Camden House (NY)
• Length: 320 Pages
• Weight: 1.20 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 6.4" x 9.3"