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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Table of Contents:
  • Prelude: The Timeless Topicality of Myth
  • pt. 1. Ancient Themes. Ch. 1. Adam: The Genesis of Consciousness. Ch. 2. Prometheus: The Birth of Civilization. Ch. 3. Faust: The Ambivalence of Knowledge. Interlude: From Myth to Modernity
  • pt. 2. Modern Variations. Ch. 4. The Secularization of Adam. Ch. 5. The Proletarianization of Prometheus
  • Ch. 6. The Americanization of Faust
  • Postlude: On the Uses and Abuses of Myth.
  • The timeless topicality of myth
  • Ancient themes. Adam: the genesis of consciousness. The Biblical fall
  • Near Eastern sources
  • The paradox of knowledge in Solomon's Jerusalem
  • Prometheus: the birth of civilization. Hesiod's trickster
  • Aeschylus's culture-hero
  • From Boeotia to Athens
  • Faust: the ambivalence of knowledge. The historical Faust
  • The growth of the legend
  • The chapbook speculator
  • Marlowe's power seeker
  • From myth to modernity
  • Modern variations. The secularization of Adam. Candide's fall
  • The typological impulse
  • Romantic tragicomic falls
  • American ambiguities
  • modern ironies
  • The proletarianization of Prometheus. From myth to Marx
  • Modern metaphors
  • Marxist myths
  • GDR ambiguities
  • Three major re-visions
  • The enemy of the people
  • The Americanization of Faust. Modernizations of the myth
  • Faust and the bomb
  • Playful Fausts of the fifties
  • A blue-collar Faust
  • Professorial Fausts
  • Fausts of politics and poetry
  • Fausts for the nineties
  • On the uses and abuses of myth.

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