| Histories of the Devil: From Marlowe to Mann and the Manichees 2016 Edition Contributor(s): Tambling, Jeremy (Author) |
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ISBN: 1137518316 ISBN-13: 9781137518316 Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan OUR PRICE: $123.49 Product Type: Hardcover Published: February 2017 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Literary Criticism | Semiotics & Theory - Religion | Christianity - Literature & The Arts |
| Dewey: 809.933 |
| LCCN: 2016954799 |
| Physical Information: 0.75" H x 5.83" W x 8.27" (1.19 lbs) 308 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: This book is about representations of the devil in English and European literature. Tracing the fascination in literature, philosophy, and theology with the irreducible presence of what may be called evil, or comedy, or the carnivalesque, this book surveys the parts played by the devil in the texts derived from the Faustus legend, looks at Marlowe and Shakespeare, Rabelais, Milton, Blake, Hoffmann, Baudelaire, Goethe, Dostoevsky, Bulgakov, and Mann, historically, speculatively, and from the standpoint of critical theory. It asks: Is there a single meaning to be assigned to the idea of the diabolical? What value lies in thinking diabolically? Is it still the definition of a good poet to be of the devil's party, as Blake argued? |