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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... Saints as a whole was recognized . Harold G. Meek's commentary on the Faustbuch pointed out parallels between Faustus's deeds and those of the legendary saints . No longer was the relationship confined to individual stories ; now the ...
... Saints as a whole was recognized . Harold G. Meek's commentary on the Faustbuch pointed out parallels between Faustus's deeds and those of the legendary saints . No longer was the relationship confined to individual stories ; now the ...
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... saints , so necessary for their badge of sainthood . Similarly , Faustus's death is violent ; like many of the saints , he is torn limb from limb . But in the saints ' legends , heathen earthly rulers are the persecutors and the saints ...
... saints , so necessary for their badge of sainthood . Similarly , Faustus's death is violent ; like many of the saints , he is torn limb from limb . But in the saints ' legends , heathen earthly rulers are the persecutors and the saints ...
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... saints as in the time of the apostles and they were both righteous and sinful.28 Because the saints , living or dead , were not perfect , a treasury of superfluous merits , the basis for indul- gences , was out of the question . And ...
... saints as in the time of the apostles and they were both righteous and sinful.28 Because the saints , living or dead , were not perfect , a treasury of superfluous merits , the basis for indul- gences , was out of the question . And ...
Contents
Preface | 9 |
The Formula for a Holy Life | 15 |
The Shift from Catholic to Lutheran | 32 |
Copyright | |
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Adrian Adrian Leverkühn anecdotes artistic Assmann Beethoven Bergsten buch Calendar of Saints Catholic Cawelti Chapter Christ Christian concept death Devil divine Durchbruch edition envy essay Faust formula Faust legend Faustian reversal Faustus's Faustus's adventures Fischer Verlag formulaic fiction Frank Baron Frankfurt am Main Geist Gesta Romanorum Goethe Golden Legend Gott hagiography Helena historical holy ideal imitation of Faustus inversion irony Johann Fausten Kunst Lichte literary little mermaid Lukács Luther Lutheran Mann's montage technique Manns Doktor Faustus Manns Roman Doktor Marie Mephostophiles mermaid miracles narrative voice narrator negation Nepo Nietzsche Nietzsche's novel pact Peter Petsch popular Princeton reader represents ressentiment Richard Weisberg robuste Naivität role Roman Doktor Faustus Rudi Rudi's saints salvation Schiller Simon Magus soul sources Spies Faustbuch story structure syphilis technique in Doktor Teufelsgespräch theology Thomas Manns Doktor Thomas Manns Roman tion union with Esmeralda values Volksbuch Voss Welt Werke writes Wysling Zeitblom