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Allen, Marguerite De Huszar
The Faust Legend
Popular Formula and Modern Novel
Series: German Studies in America - Volume 53
Year of Publication: 1985
New York, Bern, Frankfurt/M., 1985. 178 pp.
ISBN 978-0-8204-0246-8 hardback
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Weight: 0.350 kg, 0.772 lbs
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Book synopsis
Allen reevaluates the Historia von D. Johann Fausten as a work of formulaic fiction which inverts the structural pattern of the medieval saints' legends, subverting Catholic values in favor of Lutheran ones. This reevaluation makes possible a new reading of Thomas Mann's Doktor Faustus. Mann adopted the Historia's basic structural pattern of hagiography-antihagiography and rewrote the Faustian pact as Nietzschean ressentiment period. Mann recognized that the Historia had a montage technique of its own and this substantially affected the development of his montage technique in Doktor Faustus.
Contents
Contents: The Faustian Reversal of the Saint's Life - The Montage Technique: The Making of a Legend - Hagiography/Antihagiography: Narrative Voice and the Question of Salvation - The Pact: The Faustian Reversal as Nietzschean Ressentiment.
Series
Germanic Studies in America. Vol. 53
Herausgegeben von Katharina Mommsen