Thomas Mann's early Erzahlungen 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 Erzahlungen up until 1930, engages analytically with some previous research, examines possible literary influences, specific leitmotivs in the Erzahlungen and Mann's use of mythical leitmotivs.
- ISBN10 1446614999
- ISBN13 9781446614990
- Publish Date 24 February 2011
- Publish Status Active
- Publish Country GB
- Imprint Lulu.com
- Format Paperback
- Pages 68
- Language English