Histories of the devil : from Marlowe to Mann and the Manichees / Jeremy Tambling.
2016
PN57.D4
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Title
Histories of the devil : from Marlowe to Mann and the Manichees / Jeremy Tambling.
Author
Tambling, Jeremy, author.
ISBN
9781137518323 (electronic book)
1137518324 (electronic book)
9781137518316
1137518316
1137518324 (electronic book)
9781137518316
1137518316
Published
London : Palgrave Macmillan, 2016.
Language
English
Description
1 online resource (320 pages)
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PN57.D4
Dewey Decimal Classification
700/.4820216
Summary
This book is about representations of the devil in English and European literature. Tracing the fascination in literature, philosophy, and theology with the irreducible presence of what may be called evil, or comedy, or the carnivalesque, this book surveys the parts played by the devil in the texts derived from the Faustus legend, looks at Marlowe and Shakespeare, Rabelais, Milton, Blake, Hoffmann, Baudelaire, Goethe, Dostoevsky, Bulgakov, and Mann, historically, speculatively, and from the standpoint of critical theory. It asks: Is there a single meaning to be assigned to the idea of the diabolical? What value lies in thinking diabolically? Is it still the definition of a good poet to be of the devil's party, as Blake argued?
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This book is about representations of the devil in English and European literature. Tracing the fascination in literature, philosophy, and theology with the irreducible presence of what may be called evil, or comedy, or the carnivalesque, this book surveys the parts played by the devil in the texts derived from the Faustus legend, looks at Marlowe and Shakespeare, Rabelais, Milton, Blake, Hoffmann, Baudelaire, Goethe, Dostoevsky, Bulgakov, and Mann, historically, speculatively, and from the standpoint of critical theory. It asks: Is there a single meaning to be assigned to the idea of the diabolical? What value lies in thinking diabolically? Is it still the definition of a good poet to be of the devil's party, as Blake argued?
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
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Histories of the devil. From Marlowe to Mann and the Manichees.
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