Exorcising the devil from Thomas Mann's Doktor Faustus

From: German Quarterly | Date: April 1, 2003| Author: | Copyright information

Standard readings of Doktor Faustus involve intratextual interpretations of the Faust passage at the center of the novel and thereby accept the connection the narrator Serenus Zeitblom draws among love, disease, and the devil. The political-theological metaphor of the novel rests on this analogy: Adrian/Faust as Germany, the devil as the Nazi regime.1 This reading is generally accorded some validity, for Adrian's severe migraines and moments of compositional creativity seem to mirror events in German history in the novel's multileveled temporality. In this context, Adrian exemplifies the ...

Read all of this article with a FREE trial to HighBeam Research

Related newspaper, magazine, and trade journal articles from HighBeam Research

(Including press releases, facts, information, and biographies)

Expression and Adorno's Avant-Garde: The Composer in Doktor Faustus
; ...Mann suggests that Doktor Faustus (1947) runs the...the need for a novel about the genesis...commentary on music in Doktor Faustus comes from Adorno...articulated in the novel often part ways...Schonberg concerns the novel's structure. In Die Entstehung des Doktor ...
Rethinking Nietzsche in Mann's Doktor Faustus: crisis, parody, primitivism, and the possibilities of Dionysian art in a post-Nietzschean era.
; ...Thomas Mann's Doktor Faustus has been referred to as a Nietzsche-novel, and the parallels...appears in the novel goes beyond biographical...a recent study, Doktor Faustus can be seen as...too quick to read Doktor Faustus as Mann's complete...mirror those of the ...
The situation of the novel.(AUTHOR PROFILE)
; ...form in which we currently know it, the novel has never ceased to assume its role throughout...naturally been prone to fiction. When the novel is marked by literary and technical distinction...important reasons behind human interest in the novel and our vigorous response to it is that...
Caveats for teaching the novel.
; ...the success he has had in teaching the novel to his adjustments to the realities of teaching. Is it realistic to teach the novel as if one's students are going to become English teachers? Is it realistic to teach a novel that is beyond the capacities of the students...
Some theories of one's own: 'Orlando' and the novel.
; ...thought how it is worse perhaps to be locked in.(1) The novel is often celebrated for its multiplicity of voices, for...2) Bakhtin identifies its idiosyncrasies in Epic and Novel : The novel parodies other genres and incorporates others into its...
Can the novel be saved?
; ...place in our minds and hearts. I REGARD THE NOVEL as something of an endangered species...Before discussing how and why I fear the novel is changing in ways that seem in some ways...Scholars argue over when and where the first novel was written. Thirteenth-century Japan and...
Redlands author to lead novel-writing workshop
; REDLANDS - Bruce McAllister will lead an all-day novel-writing workshop Saturday, Feb. 9, at his...workshop in inner exploration and "choosing the novel that's right and true for you." Topics: Why write a novel at all (the many reasons writers do it) Why...
Women and novelistic authority.(Women and the Rise of the Novel)(Chivalric Fiction and the History of the Novel)(Women, Revolution, and the Novels of the 1790s)(Book Review)
; JOSEPHINE DONOVAN. Women and the Rise of the Novel, 1405-1726. New York: St. Martin's Press...Chivalric Fiction and the History of the Novel. Gainesville: University Press of Florida...the convoluted and complex origins of the novel. The most well known analyses have been...
The death of the novel
; ...time a-dying', and, if it could speak, the novel might do the same. Its death has been so...to declare that 'we no longer want the Novel as our great-grandfathers did'. That judgement...appetite for fiction has not staled. The novel as entertainment flourishes. Airport bookstalls...
The Novel as Concept.
; ...I have compared the process of making a novel with the process of having a child. The...Still, to have a child, just as to have a novel, to write it, a set of circumstances must occur, for without them neither child nor novel can be produced. Savants, those who pass...