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Article: 'Doktor Faustus' zwischen Tradition und Moderne: Eine quellenkritische und rezeptionsgeschichtliche Untersuchung zu Thomas Manns literarischem Selbstbild.(Book Review)
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- The Modern Language Review
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- April 1, 2005
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'Doktor Faustus'zwischen Tradition und Moderne: Eine quellenkritische und rezeptionsgeschichtliche Untersuchung zu Thomas Manns literarischem Selbstbild. By EVA SCHMIDT-SCHUTZ. (Thomas-Mann-Studien, 28) Frankfurt a.M.: Klostermann. 2003. 357 pp. 58 [euro]. ISBN 3-465-03212-8.
Was Thomas Mann a 'classicist' or a 'modernist'? Or is this now an obsolete, and obfuscating, question? Eva Schmidt-Schutz begins her study of Doktor Faustus by tracing the shift in the critical reception over the last three decades from an emphasis on Mann as a 'traditionalist'(Putz, Reed, Lange) to one on the 'modernist'(Heftrich, Lehnert, Vaget, Hansen, Dierks) or even ...