Approaches to Teaching Mann's Death in Venice and Other Short Fiction Book

	Preface to the Series
	Preface to the Volume
Pt. 1	Materials
	Editions and Translations	3
	Reference Works	6
	Background Materials	9
	General Introductions and Critical Studies	16
	Audiovisual Aids	24
Pt. 2	Approaches
	Teaching Mann's Short Fiction: A Historian's Perspective	29
	Philosophizing and Poetic License in Mann's Early Fiction	39
	Mann and Wagner	49
	Gender, Sexuality, and Identity in Mann's Short Fiction	57
	Humor and Comedy in Mann's Short Fiction	68
	Jugendstil in Mann's Early Short Fiction	77
	Death in Venice and the Tradition of European Decadence	86
	Mann and the Modernist Tradition	93
	Psychoanalysis, Freud, and Thomas Mann	105
	Teaching Tonio Kroger as Literature about Literature	119
	Tonio Kroger's Conversation with Lisaweta Iwanowna: Difficulties and Solutions	126
	Death in Venice as Psychohistory	134
	Plato and Nietzsche in Death in Venice	140
	Visconti's Cinematic Version of Death in Venice	146
	Contributors and Survey Participants	153
	Works Cited
	Works by Thomas Mann	157
	Books and Articles	159
	Audiovisual Aids	191
	Index	193