{"id":192,"date":"2012-06-04T17:54:29","date_gmt":"2012-06-04T17:54:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wordpress.clarku.edu\/rtobin\/?p=192"},"modified":"2012-06-04T19:25:55","modified_gmt":"2012-06-04T19:25:55","slug":"the-life-and-work-of-thomas-mann-a-gay-perspective","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wordpress.clarku.edu\/rtobin\/articles\/the-life-and-work-of-thomas-mann-a-gay-perspective\/","title":{"rendered":"The Life and Work of Thomas Mann:  A Gay Perspective"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Slightly shorter than the piece on\u00a0Death in Venice\u00a0in the 1994 Norton anthology, this essay develops my thinking on the role of male-male desire in Thomas Mann\u2019s famous novella. It concludes that the novella \u201cmay in fact achieve some insights into the the relationship between sexuality and gender that Mann\u2019s essays do not \u2026.\u00a0Death in Venice\u00a0presents the dead end of misogynistic male homosexuality, perhaps more clearly than its author knew.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe Life and Work of Thomas Mann:\u00a0 A Gay Perspective,\u201d in Thomas Mann, <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Death in Venice<\/span>, ed. Naomi Ritter (New York: Bedford Books, 1998) 225-244.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Slightly shorter than the piece on\u00a0Death in Venice\u00a0in the 1994 Norton anthology, this essay develops my thinking on the role of male-male desire in Thomas Mann\u2019s famous novella. It concludes that the novella \u201cmay in fact achieve some insights into &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/wordpress.clarku.edu\/rtobin\/articles\/the-life-and-work-of-thomas-mann-a-gay-perspective\/\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">The Life and Work of Thomas Mann:  A Gay Perspective<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":172,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4349,12130],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-192","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles","category-published-pieces"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.clarku.edu\/rtobin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/192","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.clarku.edu\/rtobin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.clarku.edu\/rtobin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.clarku.edu\/rtobin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/172"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.clarku.edu\/rtobin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=192"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.clarku.edu\/rtobin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/192\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.clarku.edu\/rtobin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=192"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.clarku.edu\/rtobin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=192"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.clarku.edu\/rtobin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=192"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}