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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... written pact with the Devil in order to regain his post as vicar . In Voragine's version Theophilus writes his pact ... written pact occurs in the story of St. Basil where a slave wins the noble daughter of his master with the Devil's ...
... written pact with the Devil in order to regain his post as vicar . In Voragine's version Theophilus writes his pact ... written pact occurs in the story of St. Basil where a slave wins the noble daughter of his master with the Devil's ...
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... written in his own hand- writing and found after his death ; the two pacts written in blood ( Chapters 6 and 53 ) ; and at least one of the laments ( Chapters 63 , 64 , or 66 ) . In Chapter 61 Faustus instructs his famulus Wagner to ...
... written in his own hand- writing and found after his death ; the two pacts written in blood ( Chapters 6 and 53 ) ; and at least one of the laments ( Chapters 63 , 64 , or 66 ) . In Chapter 61 Faustus instructs his famulus Wagner to ...
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... written about Thomas Mann's novel . 3 Indeed , these words do seem to have been written about Mann's novel and by Mann himself . They recall Mann's description of the preparatory notes he had collected for his novel from many diverse ...
... written about Thomas Mann's novel . 3 Indeed , these words do seem to have been written about Mann's novel and by Mann himself . They recall Mann's description of the preparatory notes he had collected for his novel from many diverse ...
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