Explores the many forms and abilities of the devil in stories from around the world. Draws on folk traditions from all over Europe, including Transylvanian Romania, Bulgaria, Albania, Switzerland, Italy, France, Scandinavia, and the Baltic countries...Daugiau...
Recording the history of the belief in the existence of Satan, this book draws from the Bible, the poetry of Dante and Milton, the legend of Faust, and from modern novels and plays such as the works of Mark Twain and G.B. Shaw, and the spiritual w...Daugiau...
Recording the history of the belief in the existence of Satan, this book draws from the Bible, the poetry of Dante and Milton, the legend of Faust, and from modern novels and plays such as the works of Mark Twain and G.B. Shaw, and the spiritual w...Daugiau...
Does the Devil lie at the heart of the creative process? In The Devil as Muse, Fred Parker offers an entirely fresh reflection on the age-old question, echoing William Blakes famous statement: the true poet is of the Devils party. ...Daugiau...
Serija: Manchester Medieval Literature and Culture
(Išleidimo metai: 04-May-2021, Paperback / softback, Leidėjas: Manchester University Press, ISBN-13: 9781526155924)
Over six hundred years before John Miltons Paradise Lost, Anglo-Saxon authors told their own version of the fall of the angels. This book brings together various cultural moments, literary genres and relevant comparanda to recover that versio...Daugiau...
Satan is not God&;s enemy in the Bible, and he&;s not always bad&;much less evil. Through the lens of the Old and New Testaments, Erik Butler explores the Devil in literature, theology, visual art, and music from antiquity up to the prese...Daugiau...
Originally published in 1900, this book was the first investigation of the devil and the Vice as dramatic figures, and a study of these figures led to a new view of the subject: it is, in brief, that the appearance of the devil in the non-dramatic as...Daugiau...
Serija: Manchester Medieval Literature and Culture
(Išleidimo metai: 22-Jun-2019, Hardback, Leidėjas: Manchester University Press, ISBN-13: 9781526129093)
Over six hundred years before John Miltons Paradise Lost, Anglo-Saxon authors told their own version of the fall of the angels. This book brings together various cultural moments, literary genres and relevant comparanda to recover that version, from...Daugiau...
Originally published in 1900, this book was the first investigation of the devil and the Vice as dramatic figures, and a study of these figures led to a new view of the subject: it is, in brief, that the appearance of the devil in the non-dramatic as...Daugiau...
(Išleidimo metai: 17-Aug-2018, Hardback, Leidėjas: Peter Lang AG, ISBN-13: 9783631747544)
Im Zentrum des Buches stehen der Teufelspakt und die Erlösungsfrage. Der Autor fragt nach den Parallelen bei Goethes Faust, Thomas Manns Komponisten Adrian Leverkühn und Klaus Manns Theaterintendanten Hendrik Höfgen und zeigt die Wege auf, die die ......Daugiau...
Embarking on a relatively new area of humanistic study, Meadows analyzes the very real consciousness of a fictive character existing in a fictive lifeworld. Her subject in the fallen monk Ambrosio in Matthew Lewis Gothic novel The Monk (1796), who t...Daugiau...
Ši knyga nebeleidžiama, tačiau mes Jums pranešime naudoto egzemplioriaus kainą
In this ambitious book, Kirk Wetters traces the genealogy of the demonic in German literature from its imbrications in Goethe to its varying legacies in the work of essential authors, both canonical and less well known, such as Gundolf, Spe...Daugiau...
Are we either good or bad, and do we really know the difference? Why do we want what we cannot have, and even to be what were not? Can we desire others without wanting to possess them? Can we open to others and not risk possession ourselve...Daugiau...
Are we either good or bad, and do we really know the difference? Why do we want what we cannot have, and even to be what were not? Can we desire others without wanting to possess them? Can we open to others and not risk possession ourselve...Daugiau...
(Išleidimo metai: 18-Oct-2012, Hardback, Leidėjas: Duquesne University Press, ISBN-13: 9780820704562)
Readers of Paradise Lost have long been struck by two prominent aspects of the poem: its compelling depiction of Satan and its deep engagement with its literary tradition. Satans Poetry brings these two issues together to respond to the resurgent i...Daugiau...
