| Title: | Some Aspects of the Semantic-Structural Analysis of Thomas Mann’s Tonio Kröger |
| Author: | Nino Kvirikadze |
| Publication: | Philologica Jassyensia, X (1 supl.), p. 257-262 |
| p-ISSN: | 1841-5377 |
| e-ISSN: | 2247-8353 |
| Publisher: | Institutul de Filologie Română „A. Philippide” |
| Place: | Iaşi |
| Year: | 2014 |
| Abstract: | [Some Aspects of the Semantic-Structural Analysis of Thomas Mann’s Tonio Kröger] In this article the problem “art – reality”, “spirit – life”, “burgher – artist” (in Thomas Mann’s Tonio Kröger) is not only treated in the context of classical literary analysis, but also from a different angle – in the context of details analysis through the structural-semantic method. Literary critics indicate there is a special treatment of the problem “Art and burghers” already at work in the antithesis of the first and last name of the protagonist: Tonio ↔ Kröger. The purpose of this paper is to handle the problem raised in semantic-statistical terms. Thus, as the statistical-semantic analysis shows, the protagonist of Thomas Mann’s story Tonio Kröger is neither burgher nor artist separately, but combines in himself both sides/features. He is “burgher + artist”, but, however, the semantic plane “artist” (41 details) outnumbers more than twice the semantic plane “burgher” (18 details), which results in “artist with an additional increment of the burgher”. Therefore, we can rightfully assume that Tonio Kröger is an artist-burgher. |
| Key words: | Thomas Mann, Tonio Kröger, the statistical-semantic analysis, artist-burgher |
| Language: | English |
| Links: |  pdf  html |
Citations to this publication: 0
References in this publication: 0
The citations/references list is based on indexed publications only, and may therefore be incomplete.
For any and all inquiries related to the database, please contact us at [Please enable javascript to view.].
Preview:
