Mephisto in the Third Reich : literary representations of evil in Nazi Germany

Mephisto in the Third Reich : literary representations of evil in Nazi Germany / Emanuela Barasch-Rubinstein.

"The association of Nazism with the symbol of ultimate evil -- the devil -- can be found in the works of Klaus and Thomas Mann, Else Lasker-Schüler, and Rolf Hochhuth. He appears either as Satan of the Judeo-Christian tradition, or as Goethe's Mephisto. Barasch-Rubinstein looks into this...

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Main Author: Barasch-Rubinstein, Emanuela, 1959- (Author)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Berlin : Jerusalem : De Gruyter Oldenbourg ; Magnes, [2015]
Subjects:
1900-1999
Devil in literature.
German literature > 20th century > History and criticism.
Good and evil in literature.
HISTORY / Holocaust.
Devil in literature
Good and evil in literature
German literature
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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Table of Contents:
  • Introduction
  • 1. The Image of the Devil in Western Culture
  • 2. Mephisto by Klaus Mann
  • 3. I and I by Else Lasker-Schüler
  • 4. Germany and the Germans by Thomas Mann
  • 5. The Deputy by Rolf Hochhuth
  • 6. The Holocaust and the Future.

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