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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... Rudi de- sires her . To be more precise , Adrian desires Rudi and only imitates Rudi's desire for Marie . Rudi is a ladies ' man . Naturally he would be attracted to Marie and she to him . Adrian , on the other hand , is the least ...
... Rudi de- sires her . To be more precise , Adrian desires Rudi and only imitates Rudi's desire for Marie . Rudi is a ladies ' man . Naturally he would be attracted to Marie and she to him . Adrian , on the other hand , is the least ...
Page 139
... Rudi will replace Zeitblom as the so necessary third party . As soon as Adrian begins to join the others on the day of the excursion , he immediately begins praising Rudi before Marie to Rudi's great pleasure . Adrian is consciously ...
... Rudi will replace Zeitblom as the so necessary third party . As soon as Adrian begins to join the others on the day of the excursion , he immediately begins praising Rudi before Marie to Rudi's great pleasure . Adrian is consciously ...
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... Rudi will be easy . For Adrian will exploit Rudi's apparent pursuit of Adrian the artist rather than Adrian the human being by persuading Rudi , the flirt , to woo in his place , by using Rudi in the way he now feels he has been used by ...
... Rudi will be easy . For Adrian will exploit Rudi's apparent pursuit of Adrian the artist rather than Adrian the human being by persuading Rudi , the flirt , to woo in his place , by using Rudi in the way he now feels he has been used by ...
Contents
Preface | 9 |
The Formula for a Holy Life | 15 |
The Shift from Catholic to Lutheran | 32 |
Copyright | |
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