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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Contents
Preface | 9 |
The Faustbuch Genre | 42 |
The Making of a Legend | 66 |
Copyright | |
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| Title | The Faust Legend: Popular Formula and Modern Novel Issue 53 of Germanic studies in America, ISSN 0721-3727 |
| Author | Marguerite De Huszar Allen |
| Publisher | P. Lang, 1985 |
| Original from | the University of California |
| Digitized | 10 Jul 2008 |
| ISBN | 082040246X, 9780820402468 |
| Length | 178 pages |
| Subjects | › › Literary Criticism / European / German |
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