... materials—works through the literary toward a theoretical and historical understanding of the relationship between citizen and refugee in Hur- ricane Katrina. Richard Wright’s “Down by the Riverside” focuses on the tribulations of Brother Mann; his pregnant wife...

..., who draws on the very different religious vision of Pentecostalism and for whose characters (quite unlike Beckett's, Mann's, and Coetzee's) belief in a God that intervenes directly in history remains a distinct possibility. Pecora admits that his “objective is not at all to claim that these three...

... of historicism” [157]) in Mann's Doctor Faustus (1947) makes for a strong conclusion to an engaging, if somewhat uneven, book. Framing Mann's novel in Oswald Spengler's and Friedrich Meineke's deeply problematic attempts at coming to terms with Germany's catastrophes in 1918 and 1945, respectively, Boes dwells...

... objects, from canonical modernist works to contemporary novels and films to the It Gets Better Project. The list of authors covered is impressive. Charles Dickens, Marcel Proust, William James, Henry James, Thomas Mann, Virginia Woolf, Willa Cather, William Faulkner, and Ralph Ellison all have substantial...

... person could enter. Otis contends that Schnitzler, aware of this debate, opposes the "membrane" model in his fiction and plays, instead conceiving of the individual as "a mind and a body without barriers, forever open to suggestion" (147). The final chapter treats Thomas Mann's Death in Venice...

... styles and the meanings of emotion words can also take place between novels. For example, the emotion word Mitleid takes on different connotations and senses in Fontane's Effi Briest and Thomas Mann's Buddenbrooks ( 1901 ). In Effi Briest , Mitleid best translates as “compassion...

... the old novel of H. G. Wells, John Galsworthy, and Arnold Bennett, and D. H. Lawrence even more closely approxi- mated Lukács’s sense of crisis in the novel as part of the crisis of the Western soul at the moment of the Great War. This work of Lukács strongly affected Thomas Mann, who put...

... , Henry . Browning as a Philosophical and Religious Teacher . London, 1891 . Kucich , John . Repression in Victorian Fiction: Charlotte Brontë, George Eliot and Charles Dickens . Berkeley: U of California P, 1987 . Mann , Michael . The Sources of Social Power . Vol. 2...

...-century American education becomes apparent when reading Horace Mann's begrudging defense of corporal punishment in his Lectures on Education ( 1845 ). See esp. lecture 1 (11–62). For more on disinterestedness in the American liberal arts tradition, see Louis Menand ( 55 ). 2 For an overview...

... European tradition running from the bildungsro- man of Goethe up through the intensifying ‘‘problematization’’ of the Bildung structure in the works of (for them) contemporary authors such as Thomas Mann, Hermann Hesse, Alfred Do¨blin, Marcel Proust, Andre´ Gide, and Louis-Ferdinand Ce´line. Later...

... . Bond , Horace Mann . “What the Army ‘Intelligence’ Tests Measured.” Opportunity 2 . 19 ( 1924 ): 197 –202. Busby , Mark . Ralph Ellison . Boston: Twayne, 1991 . Butler , Robert . “The City as Psychological Frontier in Ralph Ellison's Invisible Man and Charles Johnson's Faith...

... of Chicago P , 1996 . Jameson Fredric . The Antinomies of Realism . London : Verso , 2013 . Lukács Georg . “ Franz Kafka or Thomas Mann? ” The Meaning of Contemporary Realism . Trans. John and Mander Necke . London : Merlin , 1963 . 47 – 92 . Rancière Jacques...

..., and extravagant lies/The baroque frontiers, the surrealist police” in its dedication to Thomas Mann's daughter Erika, whom Auden had married in order to furnish her with British nationality and guarantee her escape from Nazi Germany. As Stonebridge aptly notes, Auden “understood the intimate relation between...

...) are treated as immoral exploiters of children’s sexuality, the novelists drawing one-sidedly on the debate around Sally Mann’s work. Fictional photographers frequently exemplify Susan Sontag’s biting accusation that “[t]here is something predatory in the act of taking a picture” (14). They act...

... de Balzac, Émile Zola, and Marcel Proust in France, Mark Twain and Herman Melville in America, Charles Dickens, mcmurran | Transnationalism 533 George Eliot, and D. H. Lawrence in England, Thomas Mann and Robert Musil in Germany and Austria, Leo...

..., in order to promote her risqué styles to a well-heeled clientele, she instituted fashion events that turned her London studio into a vir- tual theater complete with stage, orchestra, and printed programs of her featured designs. These were all mere prelude to the event’s highlight—Lucile’s “manne...

... and the essay ( Ercolino, Novel-Essay ); a genre that emerged in France, in the last quarter of the nineteenth century, and reached its greatest formal complexity in Germany and Austria during the interwar period, especially in modernist fiction by Thomas Mann, Robert Musil, and Hermann Broch ( Ercolino...

..., and showmanship ape the audiences before which they perform. The trapeze artist, Frau Mann, is sewn into her costume such that she ceases to obey human form: “The stuff of the tights was no longer a covering, it was herself; the span of the tightly stitched crotch was so much her own flesh...

..., leaving the reader in the position of abstract rather than concrete p~tentiality.~Interior monologue creates a state of potential, says LukBcs, wherein the writer ought to move beyond subjectivity by elucidating the relation between interiority and action. By contrast, in Thomas Mann's Lotte...

... the novel as a form have to do with any of this? I begin with Ogai—surgeon general, transmitter of advanced European medical thinking, translator of Goethe, Friedrich Schiller, Henrik Ibsen, Gerhart Haupt- mann, and Hans Christian Andersen, and progenitor of the Japanese modern novel. In his 1890...