TY - JOUR
AU - IRELAND, KENNETH R.
AB -  KENNETH R. IRELAND Epics of Decline The Institution of the Family in Thomas Mann's Buddenbrooks and Junichirö Tanizaki's The Makioka Sisters A German novel published at the beginning of the XXth Century; a Japanese novel appearing almost half a Century later. Dissimilar in cultural and literary origins, in language, äs well äs in temporal and geographical respects, the two novels share important features of epic scale, narrative attitude and structural articulation. Both works engage in ironic and elegiac modes, cultivate detadiment, establish lively rhythms throughout lengthy narratives by use of short chapters and diverse materials, and follow chronological sequence. It is, however, their common thematic attention to the function and role of the family in specific social backgrounds which unites them most closely. This topic serves äs focus for a comparative study of the two novels. Thomas Mann's Buddenbrooks (1901), first of his major works, belongs to his twenties and in its csolidity of specification' to the Realist tradition of the XIXth Century. In this point it differs from his later novels, though its scale of conception already anticipates that of Der Zauberberg (1924), the Joseph trilogy (1933--43) and Doktor Faustus (1947). Junichirö Tanizaki's The Makioka Sisters (1943--48), 
TI - Epics of Decline - The Institution of the Family in Thomas Mann's Buddenbrooks and Junichirō Tanizaki's The Makioka Sisters
JF - Arcadia - Internationale Zeitschrift für Literaturwissenschaft / International Journal for Literary Studies
DO - 10.1515/arca.1983.18.1-3.39
DA - 1983-01-01
UR - https://www.deepdyve.com/lp/de-gruyter/epics-of-decline-the-institution-of-the-family-in-thomas-mann-s-JQeufVzeim
SP - 39
EP - 49
VL - 18
IS - 1-3
DP - DeepDyve
ER -