A seven page paper looking at the way this novel by Thomas Mann can be understood as a farewell to the nineteenth-century artist. The paper explains that Mann s work is at the same time an evocation and a rebuttal of German Romanticism. Bibliography lists seven sources. Bibliography lists 6 sources. The paper points out that by writing the story realistically but packing it with classical archetypes, Mann is able to gain both intelligibility and depth.
Bibliography lists six sources.
A 3 page analysis that examines that Gustav von Aschenbach, the protagonist in Thomas Mann's Death in Venice, illustrates the ideas concerning morality discussed by Freud in his work Civilization and Its Discontents. Bibliography lists 2 sources.