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Histories of the Devil : From Marlowe to Mann and the Manichees by Jeremy Tambling (2017, Hardcover)

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Product Identifiers

PublisherPalgrave Macmillan The Limited

ISBN-101137518316

ISBN-139781137518316

eBay Product ID (ePID)228590714

Product Key Features

Book TitleHistories of the Devil : from Marlowe to Mann and the Manichees

Number of PagesXvii, 308 Pages

LanguageEnglish

Publication Year2017

TopicHorror & Supernatural, General, Semiotics & Theory, Modern / General

IllustratorYes

GenreLiterary Criticism

AuthorJeremy Tambling

FormatHardcover

Dimensions

Item Weight185.4 Oz

Item Length8.3 in

Item Width5.8 in

Additional Product Features

LCCN2016-954799

Dewey Edition23

Number of Volumes1 vol.

Dewey Decimal809/.933820216

Table Of ContentIntroduction: Literature and Manicheeism.- Chapter 1: 'The Tempter or the Tempted, Who Sins Most?'.- Chapter 2: Medieval and Early Modern Devils: Names and Images.- Chapter 3: From Carnival to King Lear : Ships, Dogs, Fools, and the Picaro .- Chapter 4: Fallen Fire: Job, Milton, and Blake.- Chapter 5: Masks, Doubles, and Nihilism.- Chapter 6: Goethe: Faust and Modernity.- Chapter 7: Dostoevsky: Murder and Suicide.- Chapter 8: Bulgakov, Mann, Adorno, and Rushdie.

SynopsisThis 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?

LC Classification NumberPN441-1009.5