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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... soul begging for absolution ( " Ablass " or indulgence ) . Later , after the Pope discovers how many things have been stolen from him , he rings the bells , has a mass and petition held for departed souls , and condemns to purgatory the ...
... soul begging for absolution ( " Ablass " or indulgence ) . Later , after the Pope discovers how many things have been stolen from him , he rings the bells , has a mass and petition held for departed souls , and condemns to purgatory the ...
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... soul might be spared . But though " hertzlich Reuwe " might have been sufficient in a Catholic formula , it is not sufficient here . In the margin Faustus's " hertzlich Reuwe " is characterized as " Judas Rew " ( p . 119 ) . In response ...
... soul might be spared . But though " hertzlich Reuwe " might have been sufficient in a Catholic formula , it is not sufficient here . In the margin Faustus's " hertzlich Reuwe " is characterized as " Judas Rew " ( p . 119 ) . In response ...
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... soul . But the good child Nepo , bringing smiles to the faces of all he encounters , brings Adrian no nearer to obtaining a musical breakthrough or a soul . Andersen's fairy tale ending is subverted by novelistic reality . Adrian , who ...
... soul . But the good child Nepo , bringing smiles to the faces of all he encounters , brings Adrian no nearer to obtaining a musical breakthrough or a soul . Andersen's fairy tale ending is subverted by novelistic reality . Adrian , who ...
Contents
Preface | 9 |
The Formula for a Holy Life | 15 |
The Shift from Catholic to Lutheran | 32 |
Copyright | |
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