Thomas Mann's the Magic Mountain: A Casebook

by Hans Rudolf Vaget

This collection seeks to illustrate the ways in which Thomas Mann's 1924 novel, The Magic Mountain, has been newly construed by some of today's most astute readers in the field of Mann studies. The essays, many of which were written expressly for this volume, comment on some of the familiar
and inescapable topics of Magic Mountain scholarship, including the questions of genre and ideology, the philosophy of time, and the ominous subjects of disease...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0195304748
• ISBN13: 9780195304749
• Release Date: March 2008
• Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
• Length: 288 Pages
• Weight: 1.00 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 5.4" x 8.1"