Ewan Fernie

The Demonic (eBook, PDF)

Literature and Experience

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

Ewan Fernie argues that the demonic tradition in literature offers a key to our most agonised and intimate experiences. The Demonic ranges across the breadth of Western culture, engaging with writers as central and various as Luther, Shakespeare, Hegel, Dostoevsky, Melville and Mann.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 336
• Erscheinungstermin: 11. Februar 2013
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781136178580
• Artikelnr.: 38258574

Autorenporträt

Ewan Fernie is Professor of Shakespeare Studies at the Shakespeare Institute, University of Birmingham, author of Shame in Shakespeare, and joint General Editor of the Shakespeare Now! series. Redcrosse, his latest, collaborative project, is a new poetic liturgy for St George's Day, which has been performed in major cathedrals and by the RSC, and a book published in 2012.

Inhaltsangabe

Part One: Demonic Negativity 1. Dark Night of the Soul 2. Luther: Man
between God and the Devil 3. Marlowe's Doctor Faustus 4. Demonic Macbeth 5.
Satan (and Demonic Sex) 6. A Justified Sinner 7. Dostoevsky's Demons 8.
Thomas Mann as Dr Faustus (via Love's Labour's Lost) 9. She Devil 10.
Loving the Alien Part Two: Turnabout and Dialectic 11. Kierkegaard
Trembling 12. Nietzsche: A Demon that Laughs 13. The Marriage of Heaven and
Hell 14. Demonic Dialectic: Boehme, Schelling, Hegel Part Three: Possession
15. Introduction A. The Agony in Possessing 16. Angelo 17. Claggart 18.
Possessing a Child 19. Possessive God 20. Christ the Possessor B. The
Possessed 21. Introduction 22. Donne 23. Poor Tom 24. A Freudian
Interruption 25. The Devils of Loudon 26. Jane Lead 27. The Master of
Petersburg 28. Schreber