The sin of knowledge : ancient themes and modern variations /

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"Adam, Prometheus, and Faust - their stories were central to the formation of Western consciousness and continue to be timely cautionary tales in an age driven by information and technology. Here Theodore Ziolkowski explores how each myth represents a response on the part of ancient Hebrew, anc...

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Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Ziolkowski, Theodore
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Princeton : Princeton University Press, ©2000.
Subjects:
Adam > (Biblical figure) > In literature.
Prometheus > (Greek deity) > In literature.
Faust, > -approximately 1540 > In literature.
Adam > (Biblical figure)
Faust, > -approximately 1540.
Prometheus > (Greek deity)
Faust, Johann > Motiv > Literatur.
Prometheus > Motiv > Literatur.
Adam > Motiv > Literatur.
Faust, Johannes > Motiv (Literatur)
Prometheus > Motiv (Literatur)
Adam > Motiv (Literatur)
Adam.
Prometheus.
Goethe, Johann Wolfgang{von.
Faust.
Mythology in literature.
Mythologie dans la littérature.
LITERARY CRITICISM > General.
Literature.
Wissen > Motiv
Faustdichtung
Literatur
Erkenntnis
Sünde
Mythologie.
Letterkunde.
Literatur > Motiv > Faust, Johann.
Literatur > Motiv > Adam.
Literatur > Motiv > Prometheus.
Mythos > Motiv (Literatur)
Mythos.
Adapa.
Aeschylus.
Anacreon.
Anaxagoras.
Apollodorus.
Beethoven, Ludwig van.
Berman, Marshall.
Borrow, Anthony.
Camerarius, Joachim.
Cleisthenes.
Dali, Salvador.
Damn Yankees.
Dickens, Charles.
Don Juan.
Dyson, Freeman.
Edwards, Jonathan.
Erasmus, Desiderius.
Greene, Graham.
Hamlet.
Heine, Heinrich.
Herodotus.
Herseyjohn.
Hesiod.
Institoris, Heinrich.
Jerome, Saint.
Jerusalem.
Jonson, Ben.
Keim, Andrew.
Kirsch, Rainer.
Klinger, Max.
Kreitzer, Larry.
Kupelwieser, Leopold.
Legenda Aurea.
Mailer, Norman.
Mainzer, Otto.
Malleus Maleficorum.
Melanchthon, Philipp.
Napoleon.
Nono, Luigi.
Olson, Elder.
Orff, Carl.
Paul, Saint.
Peisistratus.
Poussin, Nicholas.
Prometheia.
Quinet, Edgar.
biblical criticism.
chapbook.
curiositas.
etiology.
forbidden knowledge.
pact with devil.
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