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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... structures as " their essential standardization and their primary relation to the needs of escape and relaxation " ( p ... structure ; if it is to be successful , it must in some way be unique . Cawelti points out " two special artistic ...
... structures as " their essential standardization and their primary relation to the needs of escape and relaxation " ( p ... structure ; if it is to be successful , it must in some way be unique . Cawelti points out " two special artistic ...
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... structure of the formula which reaffirms the accepted moral standards of its audience and by the fact that " in the formulaic world things always work out as we want them to " ( p . 16 ) . Cawelti describes this curious paradox of most ...
... structure of the formula which reaffirms the accepted moral standards of its audience and by the fact that " in the formulaic world things always work out as we want them to " ( p . 16 ) . Cawelti describes this curious paradox of most ...
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... structure of the Faust formula . however , not difficult to understand why critics have often wished to treat this section separately . For when later editors expanded the original formula . the expansion was primarily in the anecdotal ...
... structure of the Faust formula . however , not difficult to understand why critics have often wished to treat this section separately . For when later editors expanded the original formula . the expansion was primarily in the anecdotal ...
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