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Mephisto in the Third Reich : Literary Representations of Evil in Nazi Germany.

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: Basel/Berlin/Boston : Walter de Gruyter GmbH, 2014Copyright date: ©2015Edition: 1st edDescription: 1 online resource (180 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9783110379433
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Mephisto in the Third ReichDDC classification:
  • 830.90091
LOC classification:
  • PT405 -- .B37 2015eb
Online resources:
Contents:
Intro -- Contents -- Introduction -- Chapter One. The Image of the Devil in Western Culture -- The Devil as an External Reality -- The Characteristics of the Devil -- The Nature of the Devil's Acts -- Chapter Two. Mephisto by Klaus Mann -- Devilish without a Devil -- The Actor -- Various Attitudes to Nazism -- Chapter Three. I and I by Else Lasker-Schüler -- Immanent Contrasts -- Faust -- Mephisto -- Judaism -- The Nazis -- Chapter Four. Germany and the Germans by Thomas Mann -- Luther and Nazism -- Goethe's Faust and Nazism -- German Inwardness and Romanticism -- The German Spirit -- After the War -- Chapter Five. The Deputy by Rolf Hochhuth -- Understanding Nazism: History or Religion? -- The Modern Devil -- The Church -- The Catholic and Protestant Battle against the Nazis -- Chapter Six. The Holocaust and the Future -- Bibliography -- Index.
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Intro -- Contents -- Introduction -- Chapter One. The Image of the Devil in Western Culture -- The Devil as an External Reality -- The Characteristics of the Devil -- The Nature of the Devil's Acts -- Chapter Two. Mephisto by Klaus Mann -- Devilish without a Devil -- The Actor -- Various Attitudes to Nazism -- Chapter Three. I and I by Else Lasker-Schüler -- Immanent Contrasts -- Faust -- Mephisto -- Judaism -- The Nazis -- Chapter Four. Germany and the Germans by Thomas Mann -- Luther and Nazism -- Goethe's Faust and Nazism -- German Inwardness and Romanticism -- The German Spirit -- After the War -- Chapter Five. The Deputy by Rolf Hochhuth -- Understanding Nazism: History or Religion? -- The Modern Devil -- The Church -- The Catholic and Protestant Battle against the Nazis -- Chapter Six. The Holocaust and the Future -- Bibliography -- Index.

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Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2024. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.

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