Skip to main content Skip to table of contents. Advertisement Hide. This service is more advanced with JavaScript available. Authors view affiliations Jeremy Tambling. Front Matter Pages i-xvii. Introduction: Literature and Manicheism. Pages Chapter 5: Masks, Doubles, Nihilism. Chapter 6: Goethe: Faust and Modernity. Chapter 7: Dostoevsky: Murder and Suicide.
Chapter 8: Bulgakov, Mann, Adorno, and Rushdie. Back Matter Pages About this book Introduction 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? Authors and affiliations Jeremy Tambling 1 1. London United Kingdom. About the authors Jeremy Tambling retired from Professorships in Literature first in Hong Kong and then in Manchester, UK, and now works as an independent scholar and critic.
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