02737nam 22004935 450 991025524680332120251030100552.09781137518323113751832410.1057/978-1-137-51832-3(CKB)3710000001080011(MiAaPQ)EBC4801164(DE-He213)978-1-137-51832-3(Perlego)3487513(EXLCZ)99371000000108001120170207d2016 u| 0engurcnu||||||||rdacontentrdamediardacarrierHistories of the Devil From Marlowe to Mann and the Manichees /by Jeremy Tambling1st ed. 2016.London :Palgrave Macmillan UK :Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan,2016.1 online resource (320 pages)9781137518316 1137518316 Includes bibliographical references and index.Introduction: 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.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?LiteratureHistory and criticismLiteraturePhilosophyLiterary HistoryLiterary TheoryLiteratureHistory and criticism.LiteraturePhilosophy.Literary History.Literary Theory.809.9333547Tambling Jeremyauthttp://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut224091BOOK9910255246803321Histories of the Devil2515591UNINA