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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Page 90
... composition of the Faust cantata , after Adrian's confession , and after finding Adrian's record of his meet- ing with the Devil . But Zeitblom cannot bring himself to admit consciously the obstacles this incongruity presents to his ...
... composition of the Faust cantata , after Adrian's confession , and after finding Adrian's record of his meet- ing with the Devil . But Zeitblom cannot bring himself to admit consciously the obstacles this incongruity presents to his ...
Page 102
... composition , " das hermetische Laboratorium , die Goldküche " is open to him . Composition most suits his agile mind and he has no doubt that at the he could easily succeed . But he concludes , Und dennoch , warum warnt eine inwendige ...
... composition , " das hermetische Laboratorium , die Goldküche " is open to him . Composition most suits his agile mind and he has no doubt that at the he could easily succeed . But he concludes , Und dennoch , warum warnt eine inwendige ...
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... composition with sterility . Beethoven Beethoven also represents in this piece , as in Fidelio , the Missa Solemnis , Opus 135 , and the Ninth Symphony , the idea of humanity , of a better world . The arietta theme ends with a small ...
... composition with sterility . Beethoven Beethoven also represents in this piece , as in Fidelio , the Missa Solemnis , Opus 135 , and the Ninth Symphony , the idea of humanity , of a better world . The arietta theme ends with a small ...
Contents
Preface | 9 |
The Formula for a Holy Life | 15 |
The Shift from Catholic to Lutheran | 32 |
Copyright | |
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Adrian Leverkühn anecdotes artistic Assmann Beethoven Beiträge Bergsten biography buch Catholic Cawelti Chapter Christ Christian concept death deutschen Devil didactic edition envy Erich Erika Mann Faust formula Faust legend Faustbücher Faustian reversal Faustus's Faustus's adventures Fischer Verlag formulaic fiction Frank Baron Frankfurt am Main Friedrich Geist Gesta Romanorum Goethe Golden Legend Gott hagiography Heiligen Heinrich Helena historical holy ideal imitation of Faustus irony Johann Fausten Kretzschmar Kunst literary little mermaid Ludwig Börne Lukács Lutheran magic Manns Doktor Faustus Manns Roman Doktor Marie Max Niemeyer Mephostophiles mermaid miracles naive narrative voice narrator Nietzsche Nietzsche's novel pact Peter Petsch popular Princeton reader represents ressentiment robuste Naivität role Roman Doktor Faustus Rudi Rudi's saints salvation Schiller Simon Magus soul sources Spies Faustbuch story structure technique in Doktor Teufelsgespräch theology Thomas Manns Doktor Thomas Manns Roman tion Tradition Tübingen University Press values Volksbuch Voss Wolfenbüttel writes Wysling Zeitblom