Seeing Jaakob; The Poetics of Visuality in Thomas Mann's "Die Geschichten Jaakobs"

by David L. Tingey Jr.

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Despite the considerable amount of scholarship on Mann's work, his tetralogy - composed prior to and during his exile from Nazi Germany - has received less attention and has not been examined from the perspective of the relationship of visuality to narrative. In this study of Mann's reworking of the biblical account of Jacob, father of Joseph, the author examines the ways the novel's protagonists frame their environment through knowledge and meaning...

Format:Paperback

Language:English

ISBN:3039119060

ISBN13:9783039119066

Release Date:June 2010

Publisher:Peter Lang UK

Length:314 Pages

Weight:0.95 lbs.

Dimensions:0.7" x 6.0" x 9.0"

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