Desire and the devil : demonic contracts in French and European literature

Author(s)

• Testa, Carlo

Bibliographic Information

Desire and the devil : demonic contracts in French and European literature

Carlo Testa

（American university studies, Series II, Romance languages and literature ; vol. 159）

P. Lang, c1991

Note

Includes bibliographical references (p. [181]-187) and index

Description and Table of Contents

Description

Exploring the vast terrain covered in Continental European literature after the demise of orthodox pacts, Desire and the Devil highlights the conceptual dialectic of evil and its discontents, and cohesively traces a number of fundamental modern poetics of unorthodoxy (Goethe, Balzac, Flaubert, Bulgakov, Nerval). The book asks - and answers - the ultimate question as to what it means to give oneself over to Satan (Baudelaire) in today's post-systematic world. It also reveals the second-level epistemological shifts behind the entangled thematic peripeties of the pact with the devil since the Sturm-und-Drang's renewed interest in evil.

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Details

• NCID: BA21347870
• ISBN:
  • 0820414395
• LCCN: 90028412
• Country Code: us
• Title Language Code: eng
• Text Language Code: eng
• Place of Publication: New York
• Pages/Volumes: viii, 192 p.
• Size: 24 cm
• Classification:
  • LCC : PN57.D4
  • DC20 : 809/.93382
• Subject Headings:
  • LCSH : Devil in literature
  • LCSH : European literature -- History and criticism
  • LCSH : French literature -- History and criticism
  • LCSH : Desire in literature
• Parent Bibliography ID:
  • BA00180562