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  1. 1. "Jedoch war es zu spät?" Die Chancen der geistigen Erlösung Aschenbachs in Thomas Manns Novelle Der Tod in Venedig

    Master-uppsats, Avdelningen för tyska

    Författare :Robert Miljan; [2012]
    Nyckelord :Death; love; art; beauty; spirituality; redemption; fate; decadence; aestheticism; Tod; Liebe; Kunst; Schönheit; Geistigkeit; Erlösung; Schicksal; Dekadenz; Ästhetizismus;

    Sammanfattning : The aim of the following study was to illustrate that the death of the protagonist in Thomas Mann’s novel, Death in Venice, was, in the end, not just a corporeal, but rather a spiritual one, and ultimately the result of his failure to explore the potential and true depth of human feeling. The definition of the term decadence as a state "against nature: the revulsion against both physical and human nature, preference for the artificial" (Ritter 1992, 87) served as the main theoretical basis of the study and proved helpful in articulating the protagonist’s tragic flaw, namely, his preference for the shallow image of mere physical beauty. LÄS MER