Thomas Mann's WarPub Date : 2019-11-15DOI: 10.7591/cornell/9781501744990.003.0003
Tobias Boes
{"title":"The Greatest Living Man of Letters","authors":"Tobias Boes","doi":"10.7591/cornell/9781501744990.003.0003","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.7591/cornell/9781501744990.003.0003","url":null,"abstract":"This chapter argues that the process by which Thomas Mann was canonized as the “greatest living man of letters” in the New World certainly had many similarities to his staging as a representative writer in the Old. But there were enormous differences as well, and these would turn out to be consequential for literary history, including literary history back in Germany. The chapter explains how Mann's rise to literary prominence in the United States took place within the larger context of a newly emerging and distinctively American cultural formation, the “middlebrow.” At first, this seems antithetical to Mann's associations with “serious” modern literature. However, the chapter reveals that modernism and the middlebrow have never truly stood in opposition to one another.","PeriodicalId":220488,"journal":{"name":"Thomas Mann's War","volume":"22 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-11-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"115620492","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Thomas Mann's WarPub Date : 2019-11-15DOI: 10.7591/9781501745003-009
Tobias Boes
{"title":"Interlude II: Lotte in Weimar (1939)","authors":"Tobias Boes","doi":"10.7591/9781501745003-009","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.7591/9781501745003-009","url":null,"abstract":"Literary tradition, and specifically the question of how the public perception of an author is shaped by circulation and criticism, is one of the main topics of the first fictional work that Mann completed during his American exile: the novel Lotte in Weimar. This book was first published in America in 1940 as ...","PeriodicalId":220488,"journal":{"name":"Thomas Mann's War","volume":"27 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-11-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"125213038","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Thomas Mann's WarPub Date : 2019-11-15DOI: 10.7591/9781501745003-014
Tobias Boes
{"title":"6. The Loyal American Subject","authors":"Tobias Boes","doi":"10.7591/9781501745003-014","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.7591/9781501745003-014","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":220488,"journal":{"name":"Thomas Mann's War","volume":"70 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-11-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"131186112","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Thomas Mann's WarPub Date : 2019-11-15DOI: 10.7591/9781501745003-008
Tobias Boes
{"title":"3. The First Citizen of the International Republic of Letters","authors":"Tobias Boes","doi":"10.7591/9781501745003-008","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.7591/9781501745003-008","url":null,"abstract":"This chapter reveals the increasing tensions between Thomas Mann and the Nazi regime. Since the 1920s, he had become one of the most prominent defenders of the democratic constitution of the Weimar Republic, and an increasingly vocal critic of Adolf Hitler and his followers. In addition, over the course of the late 1930s, Mann's reputation as a “great man of letters” was adapted for a new and more belligerent age that found its culmination with the outbreak of the Second World War. By turning Mann into an anti-Nazi icon, Americans were simultaneously taking a stand themselves. One of the most important factors driving this process was Mann's physical presence in the country, which opened up entirely new avenues of reception.","PeriodicalId":220488,"journal":{"name":"Thomas Mann's War","volume":"7 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-11-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"121873237","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Thomas Mann's WarPub Date : 2019-11-15DOI: 10.7591/9781501745003-005
Tobias Boes
{"title":"1. The Teacher of Germany","authors":"Tobias Boes","doi":"10.7591/9781501745003-005","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.7591/9781501745003-005","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":220488,"journal":{"name":"Thomas Mann's War","volume":"101 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-11-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"122965031","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Thomas Mann's WarPub Date : 2019-11-15DOI: 10.7591/9781501745003-006
Tobias Boes
{"title":"2. The Greatest Living Man of Letters","authors":"Tobias Boes","doi":"10.7591/9781501745003-006","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.7591/9781501745003-006","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":220488,"journal":{"name":"Thomas Mann's War","volume":"100 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-11-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"121661613","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Thomas Mann's WarPub Date : 2019-11-15DOI: 10.7591/9781501745003-013
Tobias Boes
{"title":"Interlude IV: Joseph the Provider (1944)","authors":"Tobias Boes","doi":"10.7591/9781501745003-013","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.7591/9781501745003-013","url":null,"abstract":"Mann’s increasingly spectral presence on the European continent during the early 1940s precipitated a crisis of confidence in the United States as well. The author was already well into his sixties when the Second World War broke out, and he had never thought of himself as anything else but a German writer. Publicly, he unflaggingly reiterated his confidence that the Nazis would be defeated. But privately, he entertained doubts whether he would ever see the country of his birth again, and increasingly, he was not even sure he wanted to....","PeriodicalId":220488,"journal":{"name":"Thomas Mann's War","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-11-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"121280249","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
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