Friedrich Ohly

The Damned and the Elect

Guilt in Western Culture

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

A comparative cultural history of figures such as oedipus, Judas and Faust, from antiquity to modern times.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 226
• Erscheinungstermin: 18. August 2010
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 216mm x 140mm x 13mm
• Gewicht: 325g
• ISBN-13: 9780521154666
• ISBN-10: 0521154669
• Artikelnr.: 31892845

Inhaltsangabe

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Appendix: unpublished Life of Judas from the Schaffhausen Lectionary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.