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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... material in The Golden Legend on Simon Magus is typical of a much larger body of material on Simon which was common knowledge at the time and played an important role in the evolution of the Faust legend . A third crucial ingredient for ...
... material in The Golden Legend on Simon Magus is typical of a much larger body of material on Simon which was common knowledge at the time and played an important role in the evolution of the Faust legend . A third crucial ingredient for ...
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... Material excerpted from the dictionaries by Dasypodius , for example , consisted for the most part of mere lists of musical instruments ( Chapter 8 ) , of various names for Hell ( Chapter 16 ) , of insects ( Chapter 23 ) , of dishes ...
... Material excerpted from the dictionaries by Dasypodius , for example , consisted for the most part of mere lists of musical instruments ( Chapter 8 ) , of various names for Hell ( Chapter 16 ) , of insects ( Chapter 23 ) , of dishes ...
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... material is used.25 According to Bergsten , Mann assimilates " unprecedented quantities of material from the most disparate sources . " Indeed , as was true for the Faustbuch , many of these diverse borrowings are long and copied word ...
... material is used.25 According to Bergsten , Mann assimilates " unprecedented quantities of material from the most disparate sources . " Indeed , as was true for the Faustbuch , many of these diverse borrowings are long and copied word ...
Contents
Preface | 9 |
The Formula for a Holy Life | 15 |
The Shift from Catholic to Lutheran | 32 |
Copyright | |
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