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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... Saints as a whole was recognized . Harold G. Meek's commentary on the Faustbuch pointed out parallels between Faustus's deeds and those of the legendary saints . No longer was the relationship confined to individual stories ; now the ...
... Saints as a whole was recognized . Harold G. Meek's commentary on the Faustbuch pointed out parallels between Faustus's deeds and those of the legendary saints . No longer was the relationship confined to individual stories ; now the ...
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... saints , so necessary for their badge of sainthood . Similarly , Faustus's death is violent ; like many of the saints , he is torn limb from But in the saints ' legends , heathen earthly rulers are the persecutors and the saints die ...
... saints , so necessary for their badge of sainthood . Similarly , Faustus's death is violent ; like many of the saints , he is torn limb from But in the saints ' legends , heathen earthly rulers are the persecutors and the saints die ...
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... saints as in the time of the apostles and they were both righteous and sinful.28 Because the saints , living or dead , were not perfect , a treasury of superfluous merits , the basis for indul- gences , was out of the question . And ...
... saints as in the time of the apostles and they were both righteous and sinful.28 Because the saints , living or dead , were not perfect , a treasury of superfluous merits , the basis for indul- gences , was out of the question . And ...
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