The Problem of the Artist's Identity: The Aesthetic Conflict in Thomas Mann's Death in Venice
碩士 === 淡江大學 === 西洋語文研究所 === 82 === Readers are predictably fascinated by the problem of art ande conveyed in the work of Thomas Mann, the 1929 Nobel Prize laureate for literature. In the short novel of nearly eighty pages, Death in Venice,...
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1994
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| Online Access: | http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/91770756134987774208 |
| Summary: | 碩士 === 淡江大學 === 西洋語文研究所 === 82 === Readers are predictably fascinated by the problem of art ande
conveyed in the work of Thomas Mann, the 1929 Nobel Prize
laureate for literature. In the short novel of nearly eighty
pages, Death in Venice, Mann has successfully woven the immense
and profound world of the artist's inner self and led to the
contemplation of the problem of identity in one's life. This
thesis aims to study how an artist confronted with the battle
between the pursuit of artistic form and his call for life
changes from the bourgeois artist to the bohemian exile. It is
divided into three parts. The first discusses the issure of
Aschenbach's inner struggle from an analysis of the Apollonian-
Dionysian polarity in Nietzsche's The Birth of Tragedy. The
second part deals mainly with the nature of the artist, the
conflict between the aesthetic life and the ethical life, and
finally the awareness of Aschenbach's aesthetic consciousness.
The last part of this thesis discusses the problem of identity
by means of an analysis of tragedy as conflict.
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