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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... theology and has even obtained the title of Doctor of Theology . As we are told in the first chapter , in Faustus incredible mental agility is combined with a proud and stupid mind . He is both the new 45.
... theology and has even obtained the title of Doctor of Theology . As we are told in the first chapter , in Faustus incredible mental agility is combined with a proud and stupid mind . He is both the new 45.
Page 47
... theology , daring , and the search for absolute truth and power , al- though this absolute truth and power belong ... theological education . because of the didactic framework , and because the moral norms of the reversal are still ...
... theology , daring , and the search for absolute truth and power , al- though this absolute truth and power belong ... theological education . because of the didactic framework , and because the moral norms of the reversal are still ...
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... theology and the cloistered life " aus contritio " ( p . 175 ) , in order to submit himself to a prescribed mode of humility , of atonement for his coldness and pride . " Wollen Sie verstehen , " he writes , using the Faustbuch ...
... theology and the cloistered life " aus contritio " ( p . 175 ) , in order to submit himself to a prescribed mode of humility , of atonement for his coldness and pride . " Wollen Sie verstehen , " he writes , using the Faustbuch ...
Contents
Preface | 9 |
The Formula for a Holy Life | 15 |
The Shift from Catholic to Lutheran | 32 |
Copyright | |
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