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 64
... salvation is not in the offing . His friends ' amazement at his confession leads Faustus to explain his experience with the pious old man and the Devil's threat of immediate destruction should he convert . But Faustus's friends suggest ...
... salvation is not in the offing . His friends ' amazement at his confession leads Faustus to explain his experience with the pious old man and the Devil's threat of immediate destruction should he convert . But Faustus's friends suggest ...
Page 92
... salvation , not only because of loyalty to the pact but because he despises the positivism of the world for which he would be saved , the lie of its godliness . This is exemplified in the scene where " der gute alte Arzt und Nachbawr ...
... salvation , not only because of loyalty to the pact but because he despises the positivism of the world for which he would be saved , the lie of its godliness . This is exemplified in the scene where " der gute alte Arzt und Nachbawr ...
Page 134
... salvation by his own means and calculates the means to his own salvation . Like Faustus he wishes to believe that good might yet proceed from evil . For Adrian contritio is equivalent to love and to resignation qualities he cannot help ...
... salvation by his own means and calculates the means to his own salvation . Like Faustus he wishes to believe that good might yet proceed from evil . For Adrian contritio is equivalent to love and to resignation qualities he cannot help ...
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