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Record Nr.

UNINA9910782849003321

Autore

Rickels Laurence A

Titolo

The devil notebooks [[electronic resource] /] / Laurence A. Rickels

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Minneapolis, : University of Minnesota Press, c2008

ISBN

0-8166-6634-2

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (396 p.)

Disciplina

133.422

150.1952

Soggetti

Devil - Psychology

Devil

Psychoanalysis

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. 369-376).

Includes filmography: p. 377-380.

Nota di contenuto

CONTENTS; PLEASE ALLOW ME TO INTRODUCE MYSELF; DEVIL FATHER; NOTEBOOK ONE; NOTEBOOK TWO; NOTEBOOK THREE; NOTEBOOK FOUR; NOTEBOOK FIVE; NOTEBOOK SIX; NOTEBOOK SEVEN; NOTEBOOK EIGHT; NOTEBOOK NINE; NOTEBOOK TEN; NOTEBOOK ELEVEN; NOTEBOOK TWELVE; NOTEBOOK THIRTEEN; NOTEBOOK FOURTEEN; NOTEBOOK FIFTEEN; NOTEBOOK SIXTEEN; MINE; NOTEBOOK SEVENTEEN; NOTEBOOK EIGHTEEN; NOTEBOOK NINETEEN; NOTEBOOK TWENTY; DEVIL FATHER MINE; NOTEBOOK TWENTY-ONE; NOTEBOOK TWENTY-TWO; NOTEBOOK TWENTY-THREE; NOTEBOOK TWENTY-FOUR; NOTEBOOK TWENTY-FIVE; NOTEBOOK TWENTY-SIX; REFERENCES; FILMOGRAPHY

Sommario/riassunto

Milton's Paradise Lost. Goethe's Faust. Aaron Spelling's Satan's School for Girls? Laurence A. Rickels scours the canon and pop culture in this all-encompassing study on the Devil. Continuing the work he began in his influential book The Vampire Lectures, Rickels returns with his trademark wit and encyclopedic knowledge to go mano a mano with the Prince of Darkness himself. Revealing our astonishing obsession with Satan in his many forms, Rickels guides us on an entertaining and enlightening journey down the darkest corridors that film, music, folklore, theater, and literature have ever offere