Course: The Magic Mountain by Thomas Mann [SOLD OUT]

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The Magic Mountain by Thomas Mann

Thomas Mann’s The Magic Mountain is held by many to be the greatest novel of the 20th century.  Written during and after World War I, the book shows a great artist  struggling with the demands of artistic form and also engaging with the contemporary political philosophies sweeping across Europe.  With gentle irony and also lyricism, Mann weighs the readiness of the modern bourgeois citizen for democracy, a crucial question for Germany at the end of WWI.

Syllabus

The Magic Mountain, trans. John Woods (not the translation by Lowe-Porter).

Syllabus – Magic Mountain taught by Anne Hall

About the Instructor

Anne Hall (Ph.D., Stanford) has taught for more than 40 years, at both the University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill and at the University of Pennsylvania. Trained in the Renaissance literature, her interests expanded into Ancient Greek and Roman literature and also the modern novel. In 2015, her teaching was featured by a former student who became an opinion writer for the New York Times: Frank Bruni, “College’s Priceless Value: Higher Education, Liberal Arts, and Shakespeare” and “College, Poetry, and Purpose”.