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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... sources were tion and transition . carefully integrated into the text , for example , Jacobus de Thoramo's Belial ... sources has been attributed to the original author and has been seen to imply that the use of uncited excerpts from ...
... sources were tion and transition . carefully integrated into the text , for example , Jacobus de Thoramo's Belial ... sources has been attributed to the original author and has been seen to imply that the use of uncited excerpts from ...
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... sources at a formative stage of the novel's conception.9 Third , Mann could not help noticing the heterogenous quality of the Faustbuch's sources . Many of these sources had little , if anything , to do with the Faust legend itself ...
... sources at a formative stage of the novel's conception.9 Third , Mann could not help noticing the heterogenous quality of the Faustbuch's sources . Many of these sources had little , if anything , to do with the Faust legend itself ...
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... source among many , but it was , never- theless , the initial literary source onto which other sources and associations were grafted . Excerpts from Robert Petsch's introduction to his 1911 edition of the 1587 Spies Historia von D ...
... source among many , but it was , never- theless , the initial literary source onto which other sources and associations were grafted . Excerpts from Robert Petsch's introduction to his 1911 edition of the 1587 Spies Historia von D ...
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