The Faust Legend: Popular Formula and Modern NovelAllen reevaluates the Historia von D. Johann Fausten as a work of formulaic fiction which inverts the structural pattern of the medieval saints' legends, subverting Catholic values in favor of Lutheran ones. This reevaluation makes possible a new reading of Thomas Mann's Doktor Faustus. Mann adopted the Historia's basic structural pattern of hagiography-antihagiography and rewrote the Faustian pact as Nietzschean ressentiment period. Mann recognized that the Historia had a montage technique of its own and this substantially affected the development of his montage technique in Doktor Faustus. |
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... Luther's Views on The Golden Legend and the Saints Luther did not write a biography of Faustus . But in a sense he came very close to it . There is hardly a passage in the 1587 Volks- buch that cannot be related directly to a closely ...
... Luther's Views on The Golden Legend and the Saints Luther did not write a biography of Faustus . But in a sense he came very close to it . There is hardly a passage in the 1587 Volks- buch that cannot be related directly to a closely ...
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... Luther extolled the potential benefits of the legends . Placing them second in usefulness only to the Bible is high praise indeed for Luther . Luther's comments on the saints ' legends only partial- ly explain his attitude towards them ...
... Luther extolled the potential benefits of the legends . Placing them second in usefulness only to the Bible is high praise indeed for Luther . Luther's comments on the saints ' legends only partial- ly explain his attitude towards them ...
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... Luther's early vision of his life was molded after the pattern of the saint's life . Luther's first happy year as a monk , his probationary period , seemed to confirm to him the correctness of that vision.27 Thus , when he entered the ...
... Luther's early vision of his life was molded after the pattern of the saint's life . Luther's first happy year as a monk , his probationary period , seemed to confirm to him the correctness of that vision.27 Thus , when he entered the ...
Contents
Preface | 9 |
The Formula for a Holy Life | 15 |
The Shift from Catholic to Lutheran | 32 |
Copyright | |
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