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Part of the book: Being and Meaning in Thomas Mann’s Joseph Novels

Charlotte Nolte

MHRA Texts and Dissertations 44

Bithell Series of Dissertations 22

W. S. Maney & Son Ltd for the Modern Humanities Research Association and the Institute of Germanic Studies

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Abstract.  Two Central Symbols - The Moon: Symbol of the Unconscious; Lunar Grammar and Matriarchal Consciousness; Joseph and the Moon; The Sun; The Night-Sea Crossing and Osiris; Atum- Rê, Amun- Rê, and the Concept of Trinity. Darkness and Light - The Dialectic of Darkness; Light and the Changing Concept of Sacredness. Geist and Seele - Geist and the Tree of Life; The Soul, the Tree of Knowledge, and the Well.

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