Illustration of The Magic Mountain by Dante Prado.
Congratulations to Dante Prado, CENES PhD student, on receiving the Best MA Thesis in German Studies!
The recipient of this year’s German Studies Canada Prize for Best MA Thesis in German Studies (defended in the period 2021-2023) was Dante Prado for his MA Thesis “The Crisis of Laughter at the End of the Long Nineteenth Century: Laughter in Thomas Mann’s The Magic Mountain.” The committee highlighted the use of qualitative and quantitative focus in the analysis of the cultural and changing meaning of laughter in Mann’s novel.
The abstract and the dissertation can be read here. An article based on the thesis defended at the University of Calgary is currently in press (German Life and Letters 77.4).
