The damned and the elect : guilt in Western culture
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The damned and the elect : guilt in Western culture
Cambridge University Press, 1992
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Der Verfluchte und der Erwählte
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Includes bibliographical references and index
Description and Table of Contents
Description
The stark theological polarities of damnation and salvation have haunted representations of guilt in Western culture for thousands of years. Friedrich Ohly's classic study The Damned and the Elect, first published in English in 1992, offers a comparative cultural history of figures such as Oedipus, Judas and Faust, from antiquity, through the Middle Ages, into modern times. Looking at the works of writers such as Sophocles, Dante, Marlowe, Bunyan, Goethe, and Thomas Mann (and illustrating his ideas with reference to representation in the visual arts), Ohly's wide-ranging arguments weave deftly across different cultures and periods to illuminate one of the most salient themes in Western literature.
Table of Contents
- List of illustrations
- 1. Judas and Gregorius
- 2. The despair of Judas
- 3. The penance on the rock
- 4. The Mathematicus: putting the blame on Fate
- 5. The Vorauer Novelle: 'one shall be taken and the other left
- 6. Judas and Everyman
- 7. Faust: saved or damned? 8. Bunyan, Gunther, and Lenore
- 9. Two novels by Thomas Mann: Doktor Faustus and Der Erwahlte
- 10. Sophocles' King Oedipus and Oedipus at Colonos
- Appendix: unpublished Life of Judas from the Schaffhausen Lectionary
- Notes
- Index.
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