Format:
XVI, 222 S
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Ill
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24 cm
ISBN:
0691050651
Note:
Includes bibliographical references (S. 205 - 216) and index
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Machine generated contents note: PRELUDEThe Timeless Topicality of Myth -- PART ONE -- ANCIENT THEMES -- CHAPTER ONE -- Adam: The Genesis of Consciousness -- The Biblical Fall -- Near Eastern Sources -- The Paradox of Knowledge in Solomon'sJerusalem -- CHAPTER Two -- Prometheus: The Birth of Civilization -- Hesiod's Trickster -- Aeschylus's Culture-Hero -- From Boeotia to Athens -- CHAPTER THREE -- Faust: The Ambivalence of Knowledge -- The Historical Faust -- The Growth of the Legend -- The Chapbook Speculator -- Marlowe's Power Seeker -- INTERLUDE -- From Myth to Modernity -- PART TWO -- MODERN VARIATIONS -- CHAPTER FOUR -- The Secularization of Adam -- Candide's Fall -- The Typological Impulse -- Romantic Tragicomic Falls -- Modern Ironies -- CHAPTER FIVE -- The Proletarianization of Prometheus -- From Myth to Marx -- Modern Metaphors -- Marxist Myths -- GDR Ambiguities -- Three Major Re-Visions -- The Enemy of the People -- CHAPTER SIX -- The Americanization of Faust -- Modernizations of the Myth -- Faust and the Bomb -- Playful Fausts of the Fifties -- A Blue-Collar Faust -- Professorial Fausts -- Fausts of Politics and Poetry -- Fausts for the Nineties -- POSTLUDE -- On the Uses and Abuses of Myth -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index.
Language:
English
Subjects:
Comparative Studies. Non-European Languages/Literatures
Keywords:
Faustdichtung
;
Prometheus
;
Adam Biblische Person
;
Sündenfall
;
Rezeption
;
Literatur
;
Erkenntnis
;
Grenzüberschreitung
Author information:
Ziolkowski, Theodore 1932-2020
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