The first essay that I ever published in German was part of a guerrilla Festschrift in honor of Wolfram Mauser. We young research assistants, teaching assistants, assistant professors and scholars being supported by Mauser’s research projects were not eminent enough to warrant inclusion in the official Festschrift. So, we put something together ourselves.<\/p>\n
My essay looks at mechanisms of revealing and disclosing secrets in Thomas Mann’s fictions, arguing that we find the same techniques with regard to sickness (in Tod in Venedig<\/em>) and fascism (in Doktor Faustus<\/em>)–and that these techniques are related to the “closeting” of sexuality.<\/p>\n \u201cDas offene Geheimnis der Sexualit\u00e4t:\u00a0 Verh\u00fcllung und Enth\u00fcllung von Krankheit und Faschismus in den Schriften Thomas Manns,\u201d Verschwiegenes Ich.\u00a0 Vom Un-Ausdr\u00fccklichen in autobiographischen Texten<\/span>, ed. B\u00e4rbel G\u00f6tz, Ortrud Gutjahr, and Irmgard Roebling (Pfaffenweiler:\u00a0 Centaurus, 1993) 207-218.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" The first essay that I ever published in German was part of a guerrilla Festschrift in honor of Wolfram Mauser. We young research assistants, teaching assistants, assistant professors and scholars being supported by Mauser’s research projects were not eminent enough …<\/p>\n