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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... Simon Magus legend and the Faust legend . Two conclu- sions are nonetheless clear . First , the legend of Simon Magus , like those of Theophilus and Cyprian , was tremen- dously popular in the sixteenth century , in large part due to ...
... Simon Magus legend and the Faust legend . Two conclu- sions are nonetheless clear . First , the legend of Simon Magus , like those of Theophilus and Cyprian , was tremen- dously popular in the sixteenth century , in large part due to ...
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... Simon Magus and his disciple Faustus , Clement's brother . This hypothesis is inferred chiefly from the calling card the historical Faustus left Trithemus in May of 1506 which reads : Magister Sabellicus , Faustus iunior , fons ...
... Simon Magus and his disciple Faustus , Clement's brother . This hypothesis is inferred chiefly from the calling card the historical Faustus left Trithemus in May of 1506 which reads : Magister Sabellicus , Faustus iunior , fons ...
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... Simon Magus and , like Simon , had a female companion he called Helena . Mann was thus also aware as early as 1938 that the legend of the notorious Simon Magus played an important role in the evolution of the Faust legend , that it was ...
... Simon Magus and , like Simon , had a female companion he called Helena . Mann was thus also aware as early as 1938 that the legend of the notorious Simon Magus played an important role in the evolution of the Faust legend , that it was ...
Contents
Preface | 9 |
The Formula for a Holy Life | 15 |
The Shift from Catholic to Lutheran | 32 |
Copyright | |
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