Thomas Mann: leitmotifs in his novels and short prose fiction

by David Gallagher

Thomas Mann's early Erz hlungen and Buddenbrooks contain many leitmotivs: death, spring, the walnut-tree, the violin, the sea and the 'Liebestod' motif adopted from Act III of Richard Wagner's Tristan und Isolde. A complete index is neither possible nor practicable in a work of this size which charts the use and non-use of the leitmotiv in all Mann's Erz hlungen up until 1930, engages analytically with some previous research, examines possible literary...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1446614999
• ISBN13: 9781446614990
• Release Date: February 2011
• Publisher: Lulu.com
• Length: 70 Pages
• Weight: 0.25 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.2" x 6.0" x 9.0"