Screen LibraryThe Faustian century : German literature and culture in the age of Luther and Faustus /
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| Group Author: | ; |
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| Literature type: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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Studies in German literature, linguistics, and culture
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| Carrier Form: | viii, 399 p. : ill. ; 24 cm. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: |
9781571135520 (hardcover : alk. paper) : 1571135529 (hardcover : alk. paper) |
| Index Number: | PT937 |
| CLC: | I516.063 |
| Call Number: | I516.063/F268 |
| Contents: |
Introduction: Faust scholarship and the project at hand / The German Faustian Century / Cornelius Agrippa's double presence in the Faustian Century / Converging magical legends: Faustus, Paracelsus, and Trithemius / Faust from cipher to sign and pious to profane / The aesthetics of the 1587 Spies Historia von D. Johann Fausten / The Lutheran Faust : repentance in the Augsburg Confession and the German Faustbuch / Marriage in the Historia von D. Johann Fausten (1587) / Antiauthoritarianism and the problem of knowledge in the Faustbuch / Exploring the "Three-Fold World": Faust as alchemist, astrologer, and magician / The Devil in the Early Modern World and in Sixteenth-Century German Devil Literature / Encounters with "Schwarz-Hans": Jacob Bohme and the Literature of the Devil in the Sixteenth Century / D. Johann Faust and the cannibals: geographic horizons in the Sixteenth Century / A Sixteenth-Century chronology of significant references to Faust with parallel world events. |