Description

• Title:
  Temperature, tropes, sun-worship, nudity, German colonies, post-colonial literature
• Creator:
  Martin, Ariane
• Description:
  The Magic Mountain (1924) relates an account of erotic passion. Both Hans Castorp’s emotional state and the object of his desire are characterised in a thermographic manner. The thermometer, which he buys (or, rather, acquires), is at once a Dingsymbol part of the discourse of desire and a real object common in tuberculosis sanatoria prior to the First World War. Castorp’s temperature of 37.6 degrees Celsius objectively quantifies his subjective sensibility. This specific constellation creates ironic dis-tance in the novel’s tale.
• Object availability:
  free access
• Date:
  2015.07.04
• Type:
  info:eu-repo/semantics/article;
  info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersion;
  Artykuł naukowy
• Language:
  German
• Source:
  Studia Germanica Posnaniensia; No. 36 (2015); 41-58;
  Studia Germanica Posnaniensia; Nr 36 (2015); 41-58;
  2720-7013;
  0137-2467
• Format:
  application/pdf
• Publisher:
  Adam Mickiewicz University Poznan
• Relation: http://pressto.amu.edu.pl/index.php/sgp/article/view/6311/6330
• Subject:
  body;
  Dingsymbol;
  disease;
  homoeroticism;
  leitmotif;
  love;
  medical history;
  psychoanaly-sis;
  sexuality;
  temperature metaphor
• Identifier: http://pressto.amu.edu.pl/index.php/sgp/article/view/6311
• Data provider:
  Platforma Otwartych Czasopism Naukowych UAM
• Can I use it?:
  seek permission
• Type:
  text