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The Sources and Function of Serach's Song in Thomas Mann's Joseph, Der Ernährer

1970; Routledge; Volume: 45; Issue: 2 Linguagem: Inglês

10.1080/00098655.1970.11754830

1930-6962

Kenneth Hughes,

Linguistic research and analysis

Click to increase image sizeClick to decrease image size Notes“Joseph and his Brothers” In Charles Neider, ed., The Stature of Thomas Mann (New York, 1947), p. 203. The article originally appeared in Deutsche Blätter (Santiago de Chile), Sept.-Oct” 1945.Thomas Mann. Werk und Entwicklung (Berlin, 1950), p. 262.Thomas Mann in der Epoche seiner Vollendung (München, 1952), p. 244 f.JEGP, LV (1956), 340.Mayer, p. 238. Prof. Mayer is referring to a stylistic technique of which Mann was aware and which he called “Symbolhaltigkeit”: Briefe 1937–1947, ed. Erika Mann, Frankfurt/M., 1963), p. 138.Cf. Hermann J. Weigand, “Thomas Manns Joseph in Ägypten,” Monatshefte, XXIX (1937), 255.Gesammelte Werke, 12 vols. (Frankfurt/M., 1960), V, 1718. References to Thomas Mann are to this edition and appear subsequently in the text.Hamburger Ausgabe, II, 87. References to Goethe are to this edition and appear subsequently in the text.“Goethisches in Manns Josephzyklus,” MLQ, V (1944), 263.Das Zitat in der Erzählkunst. Zur Geschichte und Poetik des europäischen Romans (Stuttgart, 1961), pp. 207–47.Ibid., p. 207 f.Cf. Mann's ironic reference to Goethe's “angeblich ‘letztes Wort,’ dass mehr Licht hereinkommen solle oder so,” Briefe 1948–1955, ed. Erika Mann (Frankfurt, 1965), p. 20.“Goethe: Novelle” in E.S., Meisterwerke deutscher Sprache aus dem 19. Jahrhundert (Zürich, 19573), pp, 135–62. Reprinted in Interpretationen 4 — Deutsche Erzählungen von Wieland bis Kafka (Fischer Bücherei), pp. 53–74.Joseph's gradual transition from mythical identifications to acceptance of his purely human reality is demonstrated in Käte Hamburger's book Thomas Manns Roman “Joseph und seine Brüder”, Eine Einführung (Stockholm, 1945); 2nd rev. ed. Der Humor bei Thomas Mann. Zum Joseph-Roman (München, 1965).See e.g., Briefe 1937–1947, p. 247; XI, 658 and Karl Kerenyi, ed., Gespräch in Briefen (Zürich, 1960), p. 97 f.