Bodily Transformations: Goethe and Mann in Venice

Using material ecocriticism, this essay considers how Thomas Mann’s Death in Venice and Johann Wolfgang Goethe’s Italian Journey portray the experience of Venice’s watery boundaries as transformative of both one’s sense of the body and of body itself. Mann obsessively presents bodies in Death in...

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Main Author: Sullivan, Heather I.
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Fondazione Università Ca' Foscari 2021-12-01
Series:Lagoonscapes
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Online Access:http://doi.org/10.30687/LGSP//2021/01/010