TY - CHAP
T1 - A Strict Arrangement
T2 - Thomas Mann, Doctor Faustus, and the Kretzschmar Lectures
AU - Kager, A.M.W.
PY - 2018
Y1 - 2018
N2 - An important position within the “Themen-Gewebe” that is Doktor Faustus is occupied by the Kretzschmar lectures, narrated by Serenus Zeitblom from his remarkably accurate memory. The lectures constitute the most forceful descriptions of music in the novel. Because of Kretzschmar’s manner of enthusiastically mimicking with his mouth what his hands are playing, it becomes very easy to follow the music while reading the text. The philosophical and historical music issues that Kretzschmar discusses in his lectures trigger long debates between Adrian and Serenus, which Thomas Mann often adopted almost literally from outside sources. There are echoes from the Kretzschmar lectures throughout Doktor Faustus, and the lectures foreshadow several other parts of the novel. Although many of Mann’s works are to some degree “musical,” his ambitions to blend words and music are nowhere carried as far as in Doktor Faustus.
AB - An important position within the “Themen-Gewebe” that is Doktor Faustus is occupied by the Kretzschmar lectures, narrated by Serenus Zeitblom from his remarkably accurate memory. The lectures constitute the most forceful descriptions of music in the novel. Because of Kretzschmar’s manner of enthusiastically mimicking with his mouth what his hands are playing, it becomes very easy to follow the music while reading the text. The philosophical and historical music issues that Kretzschmar discusses in his lectures trigger long debates between Adrian and Serenus, which Thomas Mann often adopted almost literally from outside sources. There are echoes from the Kretzschmar lectures throughout Doktor Faustus, and the lectures foreshadow several other parts of the novel. Although many of Mann’s works are to some degree “musical,” his ambitions to blend words and music are nowhere carried as far as in Doktor Faustus.
U2 - 10.4324/9781315231716-7
DO - 10.4324/9781315231716-7
M3 - Chapter
SN - 9781138285651
T3 - Routledge Studies in Twentieth-Century Literature
BT - Essays on Music and Language in Modernist Literature
A2 - O'Callaghan, Katherine
PB - Routledge
ER -