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Praise for Todd Kontje ". . . a refreshing example of what literary discourse can teach us about national identity, even historical events and trends---those aspects of a nation's evolving heritage and tradition usually reserved for other disciplines." ---Colloquia Germanica "Kontje has pulled off the amazing feat of a grand from the epic literature of the Middle Ages to very recent texts on the emerging multicultural Germany. Kontje's grand narrative, it should be noted, is not at all simplistic or reductionistic. He gets at the individual texts in complex ways . . . he displays an enviable erudition and scholarship, tracing lines through centuries when most scholars today limit themselves to narrow specialties." ---Russell Berman, Stanford University Exactly how Thomas Mann's significance registers with the scholarly and general public has been subject to change. For many, Mann retains the aura of the "good German," the Nobel Laureate who was the most vocal leader of the exile community against Hitler and the Third Reich. His diaries, however, contain some rather nasty comments about Mann's many Jewish friends and acquaintances, inspiring a renewed look at the negative Jewish ste

Author

Todd Curtis Kontje

Publisher

Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press

Published

2010

Language

EN

ISBN

9780472117468

Subjects

Literary Fiction, History, Humanities