73 results for '"Thomas Mann"'

Eight complex stories illustrative of the author's belief that "a story must tell itself," highlighted by the high art style of the famous title novella.

This remarkable new translation of the Nobel Prize-winner’s great masterpiece is a major literary event. Thomas Mann regarded his monumental retelling of the biblical story of Joseph as his magnum...

Most researchers, even with computers, find only a fraction of the sources available to them. As Library of Congress reference librarian Thomas Mann explains, researchers tend to work within one or...

Desde su exilio en Estados Unidos, en donde donde era considerado una gran celebridad, y através de las emisoras de radio de la BBC, Thomas Mann no dejó de dununciar los crímenes nazis al pueblo...

Lit Hub: Most Anticipated Books of 2023 Sparkling new translations highlight the humor and poignancy of Mann's best stories--including his masterpiece, in its first English translation in nearly a...

This vivid, sometimes tragic, and often humorous literary biography brings to life as never before the extraordinary talent and complex person who was Thomas Mann. Engrossing vignettes enable us to...

Essays examine democracy, patriotism, political life, the nature of virtue, and the culture of Germany

"John E. Woods is revising our impression of Thomas Mann, masterpiece by masterpiece."  —The New Yorker"Doctor Faustus is Mann's deepest artistic gesture. . . . Finely translated by John E. Woods."...

Though they worked in very different disciplines, Max Weber and Thomas Mann were engaged from early in their careers in a remarkably similar enterprise converging on questions of personal identity...

Destino e compito, finalmente presentato con un'attenta traduzione al pubblico italiano da Elena Sciarra, fu scritto da Thomas Mann durante il suo esilio americano, e più precisamente nell'estate del...

Wiedemann presents an original and comprehensive study of the changing significance of gladiatoral contests to Roman culture.Of all aspects of Roman coulture, the gladiatorial contests for which the...

Americans have long considered themselves a people set apart, but American exceptionalism is built on a set of tacit beliefs about other cultures. From the founding exclusion of indigenous peoples...

A compelling framework for understanding the importance of the 1970s for America and the worldThe 1970s looks at an iconic decade when the cultural left and economic right came to the fore in...

The annual Neural Information Processing Systems (NIPS) conference is the flagship meeting on neural computation and machine learning. It draws a diverse group of attendees--physicists,...

Klaus Mann, writer of Mephisto and the oldest son of Nobel Prize winner Thomas Mann, describes the life of intellectuals in Europe before the Nazi seizure of power, then moves on to depict the...

Over the last twenty years, much critical discussion of Thomas Mann has highlighted his homosexuality. This not only is presented as a dynamic underlying Mann's creative work, but also is the...

In the 1930s and 40s, Los Angeles became an unlikely cultural sanctuary for a distinguished group of German artists and intellectuals—including Thomas Mann, Theodore W. Adorno, Bertolt Brecht, Fritz...