The Faust myth : religion and the rise of representation

The Faust myth : religion and the rise of representation / David Hawkes.

This book traces the evolution of the Faust myth from the sixteenth century to modern times. The authors studied include Marlowe, Calderon, Milton, Goethe, Byron, Dostoevsky, Wilde, Thomas Mann, and Salman Rushdie.

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Hawkes, David, 1964- (Author)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Basingstoke : Palgrave Macmillan, 2007.
Subjects:
Faust, > -approximately 1540 > In literature.
Faust, > -approximately 1540
Religion and literature.
Literature
Religion and literature
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Table of Contents:
  • Introduction: Selling the Soul: Aristotle, J.L. Austin and Jacques Derrida
  • Faust and Witchcraft: Augustine, Aquinas, Luther, and Johan Spies's Faust-book
  • Faust on Stage: Theatricality, Marlowe, Greene and the Puppet-plays
  • Faust and Alienation: Milton and the Manichees
  • Faust and Don Juan: Feminism, Calderon, de Molina, Moliere, Byron and George Sand
  • Faust and Enlightenment: Marx, Hegel, Goethe and the Alchemy of Capital
  • Modernist Faust: Spengler, Nietzsche, Dostoevsky, Wilde and Thomas Mann
  • Faust and Globalization: Magic in the Postcolonial World, Salman Rushdie and Ngugi Wa' Thiongo.

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