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 54
... reader is constantly reassured that he is not like Faustus . The structure of an inverted hagiography supplemented with the voice of the didactic narrator supplies the reader with an alternative model with which to identify , an ideal ...
... reader is constantly reassured that he is not like Faustus . The structure of an inverted hagiography supplemented with the voice of the didactic narrator supplies the reader with an alternative model with which to identify , an ideal ...
Page 56
... reader's everyday Christian environment . Because the reader expe- riences the life of Faustus through the prism of the ideals of the Christian narrator , disorder , uncertainty , ambigui- ty , and a sense of one's own limitations are ...
... reader's everyday Christian environment . Because the reader expe- riences the life of Faustus through the prism of the ideals of the Christian narrator , disorder , uncertainty , ambigui- ty , and a sense of one's own limitations are ...
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... reader's sympathy . The sym- pathy Faustus's speech evokes in the reader builds up a feeling of suspense : Faustus's reawakened hope that he might yet be saved stirs the reader's anxiety that a last- minute conversion might be at hand ...
... reader's sympathy . The sym- pathy Faustus's speech evokes in the reader builds up a feeling of suspense : Faustus's reawakened hope that he might yet be saved stirs the reader's anxiety that a last- minute conversion might be at hand ...
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