Contents

 

 

Acknowledgments

List of Abbreviations

Introduction: Literature, Philosophy, and Images in Mahler’s Music

I. The Crisis of German Culture

1: Titan: Symphony of an Anti-Hero

2: Des Knaben Wunderhorn: Rediscovering the “Volk”

3: Nietzsche and the Crisis of German Culture

II. German Culture and Its Others

4: Rembrandt and the Margins of German Culture

5: Goethe against German Culture

6: The Two Faces of German Orientalism

Conclusion: Beyond Mahler

Notes

Works Consulted

Index

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