{"id":209,"date":"2012-06-04T19:10:49","date_gmt":"2012-06-04T19:10:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wordpress.clarku.edu\/rtobin\/?p=209"},"modified":"2012-06-04T19:24:21","modified_gmt":"2012-06-04T19:24:21","slug":"making-way-for-the-third-sex-male-male-desire-in-thomas-manns-early-short-fiction","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wordpress.clarku.edu\/rtobin\/articles\/making-way-for-the-third-sex-male-male-desire-in-thomas-manns-early-short-fiction\/","title":{"rendered":"Making Way for the Third Sex: Male-Male Desire in Thomas Mann&#8217;s Early Short Fiction"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This essay looks at the \u201cqueer\u201d characters in Mann\u2019s early fiction, prior to\u00a0Death in Venice\u2014characters such as Paolo Hofmann in \u201cThe Will to Happiness,\u201d Johannes Friedemann in \u201cLittle Mr. Friedemann,\u201d Christian Jacoby in \u201cLittle Louise,\u201d Detlev Spinell in \u201cTristan,\u201d and Tonio Kr\u00f6ger in the novella that bears his name. It sets all of these characters in the context of competing late nineteenth- and early twentieth-century discourses about sexuality.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Making Way for the Third Sex: Male-Male Desire in Thomas Mann&#8217;s Early Short Fiction,&#8221; in <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">A Companion to German Realism, 1848-1900<\/span>, ed. Todd Kontje (Rochester: Camden House, 2002) 307-38.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This essay looks at the \u201cqueer\u201d characters in Mann\u2019s early fiction, prior to\u00a0Death in Venice\u2014characters such as Paolo Hofmann in \u201cThe Will to Happiness,\u201d Johannes Friedemann in \u201cLittle Mr. Friedemann,\u201d Christian Jacoby in \u201cLittle Louise,\u201d Detlev Spinell in \u201cTristan,\u201d and &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/wordpress.clarku.edu\/rtobin\/articles\/making-way-for-the-third-sex-male-male-desire-in-thomas-manns-early-short-fiction\/\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Making Way for the Third Sex: Male-Male Desire in Thomas Mann&#8217;s Early Short Fiction<\/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-209","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\/209","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=209"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.clarku.edu\/rtobin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/209\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.clarku.edu\/rtobin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=209"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.clarku.edu\/rtobin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=209"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.clarku.edu\/rtobin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=209"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}