Approaches to Teaching Mann's Death in Venice and Other Short Fiction

by Jeffrey B. Berlin (Editor)

Now at seventy-three volumes, this popular MLA series (ISSN 10591133) addresses a broad range of literary texts. Each volume surveys teaching aids and critical material and brings together essays that apply a variety of perspectives to teaching the text. Upper-level undergraduate and graduate students, student teachers, education specialists, and teachers in all humanities disciplines will find these volumes particularly helpful.

199 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 1992

About the author

Jeffrey B. Berlin is an emeritus professor of comparative literature at Holy Family University. He has written or edited thirteen scholarly books, including Stefan Zweig — Friderike Zweig Briefwechsel 1912-1942 (2006); the four-volume Stefan Zweig: Briefe 1897-1942 (1995-2005); Stefan Zweig: Briefwechsel mit Bahr, Freud, Rilke u. Schnitzler (1987) all published by S. Fischer Verlag; Turn-of-the-Century Vienna and Its Legacy: Essays in Honor of Donald G. Daviau (1993); and Approaches to Teaching Mann’s Death in Venice and Other Short Fiction (1992). In addition, he has published numerous articles, introductions, reviews, and translations. His principal interests include fin-de-siècle Vienna; German and Austrian émigrés in Great Britain and America; and literary relations between American publishers and 20th-century German and Austrian authors. He and his wife have been married 35 years and have two adult children.