Hidden mutualities : Faustian themes from gnostic origins to the postcolonial /

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Hidden mutualities link the work of major postcolonial writers with Christopher Marlowe's drama of the Faustian pact - the manipulation of the material world in exchange for the soul - written as the 'scientific' world-view was emerging which accompanied the imperial expansion of Euro...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Mitchell, Michael
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
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Published: Amsterdam ; New York, NY : Rodopi, 2006.
Series:Cross/cultures ; 87.
Subjects:
Marlowe, Christopher, > 1564-1593. > Doctor Faustus.
Faust, Johannes > Motiv (Literatur) > Englisch > Geschichte > 1600-1992.
Doctor Faustus (Marlowe, Christopher)
Gnosticism.
Hermetism.
Postcolonialism.
Gnosticisme.
Hermétisme.
Postcolonialisme.
hermetism.
postcolonialism.
DRAMA > English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh.
Gnosticism
Hermetism
Postcolonialism
Faustmotief.
Hermetisme.
Faustgestalt > Motiv > Literatur.
Literatur > Motiv > Faustgestalt.
Literatur > Englisch > Motiv (Literatur) > Faust, Johannes > Geschichte > 1600-1992.
Magus in literature.
Faust in literature.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Acknowledgements; Illustrations; Introduction; PART I: POTENT ARTS; 1. The Gnostic/Hermetic Tradition: Simon Magus to Faust; 2. Standing and Falling: Marlowe's Doctor Faustus; 3. Ariel Magic: Shakespeare's The Tempest; PART II: OVERGROWN PATHS; 4. Renaissance and Enlightenment: Kepler and Fludd; 5. Rationality and Romanticism: Newton and Blake; 6. Rediscoveries: Kipling, Yeats, Crowley, Pauli and Jung; PART III: RE-VISIONING MUTUALITIES; 7. The Fictional Fulcrum: Athol Fugard's Dimetos; 8. The Crystal Cliff: David Dabydeen's Disappearance; 9. The Magic Wound: Derek Walcott's Omeros.

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