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Histories of the Devil: From Marlowe to Mann and the Manichees

Histories of the Devil: From Marlowe to Mann and the Manichees

Tambling, Jeremy

Hardcover

Literary CriticismGeneral Christianity

ISBN10: 1137518316
ISBN13: 9781137518316
Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
Published: Feb 28 2017
Pages: 308
Weight: 1.19
Height: 0.75 Width: 5.83 Depth: 8.27
Language: English
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?

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