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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... cultural continuity to the shift in religious and cultural values from Catholic to Lutheran , as do the adaptations from popular folklore of Faustus's " merry pranks . " Similarly , the didactic The Faust framework in which the sinner ...
... cultural continuity to the shift in religious and cultural values from Catholic to Lutheran , as do the adaptations from popular folklore of Faustus's " merry pranks . " Similarly , the didactic The Faust framework in which the sinner ...
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... cultural moment and maintaining an interest for later generations and other cultures " ( p . 11 ) . The Faustian reversal embo- died in the Faustbuch became the mere starting point for an enormous number of works in a great number of ...
... cultural moment and maintaining an interest for later generations and other cultures " ( p . 11 ) . The Faustian reversal embo- died in the Faustbuch became the mere starting point for an enormous number of works in a great number of ...
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... cultural developments , for example.37 Applied to the novel form , the synthesis aspired to is , on the one hand , the production of a representative cultural product which by means of montage incorporates and transcends the limita ...
... cultural developments , for example.37 Applied to the novel form , the synthesis aspired to is , on the one hand , the production of a representative cultural product which by means of montage incorporates and transcends the limita ...
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