Myths of modern individualism : Faust, Don Quixote, Don Juan, Robinson Crusoe /
In their original versions, the ultimate fates of Faust, Don Quixote, and Don Juan reflect the anti-individualism of their time: Faust and Don Juan are punished in hellfire, and Don Quixote is mocked. The three represent the positive drive of individualism, which brings down on itself repression by...
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New York :
Cambridge University Press,
1996.
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Πίνακας περιεχομένων:
- Pt. I.: Three Renaissance Myths
- From George Faust to Faustbuch
- The Tragicall History of the Life and Death of Doctor Faustus
- Don Quixote of La Mancha
- El Burlador and Don Juan
- Renaissance Individualism and the Counter-Reformation
- Pt. II.: From Puritan Ethic to Romantic Apotheosis
- Robinson Crusoe
- Crusoe, Ideology, and Theory
- Romantic Apotheosis of Renaissance Myths
- Myth and Individualism
- Coda: Thoughts on the Twentieth Century
- Thomas Mann's Doctor Faustus.
- Michel Tournier's Friday
- Some Notes on the Present
- Appendix: The worldwide diffusion of the myths.
