Deaths in Venice

Kitcher, Philip 1947- (Author).

Record details

ISBN: 9780231536035 (electronic bk.)
ISBN: 0231536038 (electronic bk.)
Physical Description: electronic resource
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1 online resource (281 p.)
Publisher: New York : Columbia University Press, 2013.

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General Note:

Published in 1913, Thomas Mann's Death in Venice is one of the most widely read novellas in any language. In the 1970s, Benjamin Britten adapted it into an opera, and Lucchino Visconti turned it into a successful film. Reading these works from a philosophical perspective, Philip Kitcher connects the predicament of the novella's central character to Western thought's most compelling questions.In Mann's story, the author Gustav von Aschenbach becomes captivated by an adolescent boy, first seen on the lido in Venice, the eventual site of Aschenbach's own death. Mann works through cen.

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Formatted Contents Note:

Table of Contents; List of Illustrations; Preface; List of Abbreviations; A Note on Translations; 1. Discipline; 2. Beauty; 3. Shadows; Notes; Index