Thomas Mann's Joseph and His Brothers
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Freud lectures
Joseph tetralogy
Kleist's play "Amphitryon"
Psychoanalysis
Public performance
Thomas Mann
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- ISBN 9781571131546
- Weight: 670g
- Dimensions: 386 x 579mm
- Publication Date: 01 Jun 1999
- Publisher: Boydell & Brewer Ltd
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Hardback
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A study of Mann's novel tetralogy of the 1930s that stresses its relationship to three key essays by Mann.
McDonald's study offers fresh insights into Mann's Joseph tetralogy in two ways. Beginning with Mann's well documented love for public performance, he rereads the Joseph novels as a script, showing how performance figures prominently in the form as well as the substance of the narrative. Then he interprets several of the essay-lectures composed during the Joseph years (1926-1943), emphasizing their performative qualities and their conscious (and subliminal) interweavings with the novel. Mann's passionate re-enactment of Kleist's play "Amphitryon" in his 1927 lecture provided a model of identity that he developed fully in Joseph. The model also helped him contain the more pessimistic account of identity he encountered in Freud. The Freud lectures of 1929 and 1936 develop psychoanalysis as an Enlightenment project useful in combating the irrationalism of the Nazis, and carefully control its darker aspects.
