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

By Emanuela Barasch-Rubinstein

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Hardcover:

9783110379389 | De Gruyter Oldenbourg, November 30, 2014, cover price $133.00

Facing the Fiend: Satan As a Literary Character

Product Description: Satan is not a theological concept, but a literary construct. 'Facing the Fiend' places the character within a well-defined literary tradition. Satan is established to be a highly ambiguous figure, who plays a central narrative role in a wide variety of texts...read more

By Eva Marta Baillie

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9780718893545 | Lutterworth Pr, August 11, 2014, cover price $33.00 | About this edition: Satan is not a theological concept, but a literary construct.

9781620329245 | Wipf & Stock Pub, February 4, 2014, cover price $24.00 | About this edition: Satan is not a theological concept, but a literary character.

The Demonic: Literature and Experience

By Ewan Fernie

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Hardcover:

9780415690249 | Routledge, December 14, 2012, cover price $145.00

Paperback:

9780415690256 | Routledge, December 15, 2012, cover price $44.95

Satan's Poetry: Fallenness and Poetic Tradition in Paradise Lost

Product Description: Readers of Paradise Lost have long been struck by two prominent and seemingly unrelated aspects of the poem: its compelling depiction of Satan and its deep engagement with its literary (and specifically epic) tradition. Satan's Poetry brings these two issues together to provide a bold, provocative, and fresh reading of the poem one that responds to the resurgent interest in Milton's Satan by examining the origins of conflict and ambiguity in Paradise Lost...read more

By Danielle A. St. Hilaire

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9780820704562 | Duquesne Univ Pr, October 26, 2012, cover price $58.00 | About this edition: Readers of Paradise Lost have long been struck by two prominent and seemingly unrelated aspects of the poem: its compelling depiction of Satan and its deep engagement with its literary (and specifically epic) tradition.

Russian Literature and Its Demons

By Pamela Davidson (editor)

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Hardcover:

9781571817587 | Berghahn Books, December 1, 2000, cover price $90.00

Paperback:

9781845457570 | Berghahn Books, November 10, 2010, cover price $34.95

After Satan: Essays in Honour of Neil Forsyth

Product Description: This volume is the result of a collective desire to pay homage to Neil Forsyth, whose work has significantly contributed to scholarship on Satan. This volume is 'after' Satan in more ways than one, tracing the afterlife of both the Satanic figure in literature and of Neil Forsyth's contribution to the field, particularly in his major books 'The Old Enemy: Satan and the Combat Myth' (Princeton UP, 1987, revised 1990) and 'The Satanic Epic' (Princeton UP, 2003)...read more

By Kirsten Stirling (editor)

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9781443823388 | Cambridge Scholars Pub, October 1, 2010, cover price $67.95 | About this edition: This volume is the result of a collective desire to pay homage to Neil Forsyth, whose work has significantly contributed to scholarship on Satan.

The Human Satan in Seventeenth-Century English Literature: From Milton to Rochester

By Nancy Rosenfeld

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9780754664680 | Ashgate Pub Co, July 15, 2008, cover price $149.95

Fictions Du Diable: Litterature Et Demonologie De Saint Augustin a Leo Taxil

By Francoise Lavocat (editor)

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Paperback:

9782600011358 | Droz Librairie, December 31, 2007, cover price $72.00

Fallen Angels

By Harold Bloom and Mark Podwal (illustrator)

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Hardcover:

9780300123487 | Yale Univ Pr, October 30, 2007, cover price $16.00

The Devil and the Sacred in English Drama, 1350-1642

John Cox tells the intriguing story of stage devils from their earliest appearance in English plays to the closing of the theaters by parliamentary order in 1642. The book spans both medieval and Renaissance drama and includes the medieval Mystery cycles on the one hand, through to plays by Greene, Marlowe, Shakespeare (Henry VI Parts 1 and 2), Jonson, Middleton and Davenant.

By John D. Cox

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9780521790901 | Cambridge Univ Pr, January 1, 2000, cover price $99.99 | About this edition: John Cox tells the intriguing story of stage devils from their earliest appearance in English plays to the closing of the theaters by parliamentary order in 1642.

Paperback:

9780521031189 | Cambridge Univ Pr, November 2, 2006, cover price $44.99

A Devil's Vaudeville: The Demonic In Dostoevsky's Major Fiction

By William J. Leatherbarrow

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Hardcover:

9780810120495 | Northwestern Univ Pr, May 24, 2005, cover price $75.95

The Comics Go To Hell: A Visual History Of The Devil In Comics

Product Description: The Devil is one of the most potent and longest-lived icons in the history of human civilization. It is therefore not a big surprise that images of the Prince of Darkness are so abundant in comics--a medium that by its nature builds upon the communicative powers of icons...read more

By Fredrik Stromberg

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9781560976165 | Fantagraphics Books, April 18, 2005, cover price $18.95 | About this edition: The Devil is one of the most potent and longest-lived icons in the history of human civilization.

Satan

A collection of critical essays concerning varying interpretations of the devil through literature and history.

By Harold Bloom (editor)

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9780791081778 | Chelsea House Pub, February 1, 2005, cover price $40.00 | About this edition: A collection of critical essays concerning varying interpretations of the devil through literature and history.

Paperback:

9780791083864 | Chelsea House Pub, April 1, 2005, cover price $18.60 | About this edition: A collection of critical essays concerning varying interpretations of the devil through literature and history.

Library:

9780791009291 | Chelsea House Pub, July 1, 1995, cover price $34.95

Prebinding:

9781417690411 | Turtleback Books, March 1, 2005, cover price $31.40 | About this edition: A collection of critical essays concerning varying interpretations of the devil through literature and history.

Young Goodman Brown

This collection of critical essays includes insights and revelations regarding Puritan beliefs and behavior in seventeenth-century America.

By Harold Bloom (editor)

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9780791081242 | Chelsea House Pub, February 1, 2005, cover price $45.00 | About this edition: This collection of critical essays includes insights and revelations regarding Puritan beliefs and behavior in seventeenth-century America.

Romantic Satanism: Myth and the Historical Moment in Blake, Shelley, and Byron

Product Description: Criticism has largely emphasized the private meaning of "Romantic Satanism", treating it as the celebration of subjectivity through allusions to Paradise Lost that voice Satan's solitary defiance. The first full-length treatment of its subject, Romantic Satanism explores this literary phenomenon as a socially produced myth exhibiting the response of writers to their milieu...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

By Peter A. Schock

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9781403911827 | Palgrave Macmillan, October 10, 2003, cover price $170.00 | About this edition: Criticism has largely emphasized the private meaning of "Romantic Satanism", treating it as the celebration of subjectivity through allusions to Paradise Lost that voice Satan's solitary defiance.

The Devil in Legend and Literature

Product Description: 1931. Contents: Legend of Lucifer; Number of the devils; Names of the devils; Form of the Fiend; Devil's dominions; Journeys to hell; Organization of pandemonium; Asmodeus, dandy among demons; Legend of Lilith; belief in the devil; Devil's death; Diabolus simia dei; War for the world; Synagogue of Satan; Devil-compact in tradition and belief, in legend and literature; Loves of the demons; Devil, the world and the flesh; Devil in literature; Salvation of Satan in modern poetry...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

By Maximilian Josef Rudwin

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Hardcover:

9780404054519, titled "Devil in Legend and Literature" | Ams Pr Inc, June 1, 1980, cover price $14.50

Paperback:

9780766134690 | Kessinger Pub Co, February 1, 2003, cover price $27.95 | About this edition: 1931.

9780875482484 | Open Court Pub Co, June 1, 1970, cover price $11.95

Satan Unbound: The Devil in Old English Narrative

Product Description: The devil is perhaps the single-most recurring character in Old English narrative literature, and yet his function in the highly symbolic narrative world of hagiography has never been systematically studied. Certain inconsistencies characteristically accompany the nebulous devil in early medieval narrative accounts - he is simultaneously bound in hell and yet roaming the earth; he is here identified as the chief of demons, and there taken as a collective term for the totality of demons; he is at one point a medical parasite and at another a psychological principle...read more

By Peter Dendle

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9780802048394 | Univ of Toronto Pr, January 1, 2002, cover price $66.00 | About this edition: The devil is perhaps the single-most recurring character in Old English narrative literature, and yet his function in the highly symbolic narrative world of hagiography has never been systematically studied.

Satan Unbound: The Devil in Old English Narrative Literature

By Peter Dendle

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9780802083692 | Univ of Toronto Pr, January 1, 2002, cover price $32.95 | About this edition: The devil is perhaps the single-most recurring character in Old English narrative literature, and yet his function in the highly symbolic narrative world of hagiography has never been systematically studied.

The Intimate Stranger: Meetings With the Devil in Nineteenth-Century Russian Literature

Product Description: The Intimate Stranger provides the first detailed investigation of a distinctive literary phenomenon: a fascination with demons and devils in nineteenth-century Russian literature. Nearly all of the major authors of the period - Pushkin, Gogol, Lermontov, Dostoevsky, and Tolstoy - used images of devils to explore issues of human temptation, sin, and guilt in a troubled world...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

By Julian W. Connolly

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9780820455167 | Peter Lang Pub Inc, August 1, 2001, cover price $81.95 | About this edition: The Intimate Stranger provides the first detailed investigation of a distinctive literary phenomenon: a fascination with demons and devils in nineteenth-century Russian literature.

Actor As Anti-Character: Dionysus, the Devil, and the Boy Rosalind

Product Description: Working from the premise that the stage performer's primary functions derive from celebrative rit.... (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

By Lesley Wade Soule

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9780313313042 | Praeger Pub Text, August 1, 2000, cover price $84.00 | About this edition: Working from the premise that the stage performer's primary functions derive from celebrative rit.

Russian Devils and Diabolic Conditionality in Nikolai Gogol's Evenings on a Farm Near Dikanka

Product Description: In addition to examining the aesthetic representation of evil in Nikolai Gogol's Evenings on a Farm near Dikanka, this book explores the traditions of speculation into the devil found in Orthodox theology, medieval Russian literature, and East Slavic folklore...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

By Christopher Putney

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9780820437705 | Peter Lang Pub Inc, January 1, 1999, cover price $67.95 | About this edition: In addition to examining the aesthetic representation of evil in Nikolai Gogol's Evenings on a Farm near Dikanka, this book explores the traditions of speculation into the devil found in Orthodox theology, medieval Russian literature, and East Slavic folklore.

By Authors Possessed: The Demonic Novel in Russia

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By Adam Weiner

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Hardcover:

9780810116146 | Northwestern Univ Pr, November 25, 1998, cover price $77.00

Shelley's "Devils" Notebook: Bodleian Ms. Shelley Adds. E. 9 : A Facsimile Edition With Full Transcription and Textual Notes

By P. M. S. Dawson, Percy Bysshe Shelley and Timothy Webb

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9780824058982 | Taylor & Francis, June 1, 1993, cover price $325.00

Desire and the Devil: Demonic Contracts in French and European Literature

Product Description: Exploring the vast terrain covered in Continental European literature after the demise of «orthodox» pacts, Desire and the Devil highlights the conceptual dialectic of evil and its discontents, and cohesively traces a number of fundamental modern poetics of unorthodoxy (Goethe, Balzac, Flaubert, Bulgakov, Nerval)...read more

By Carlo Testa

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9780820414393 | Peter Lang Pub Inc, June 1, 1991, cover price $53.95 | About this edition: Exploring the vast terrain covered in Continental European literature after the demise of «orthodox» pacts, Desire and the Devil highlights the conceptual dialectic of evil and its discontents, and cohesively traces a number of fundamental modern poetics of unorthodoxy (Goethe, Balzac, Flaubert, Bulgakov, Nerval).

The Meanings of Faust and the Devil: Philosophical and Social Thought in Faustian Literature Precursory to Goethe's Faust

By John Edward Westburg

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Paperback:

9780874230581 | Westburg Asso Pub, May 1, 1990, cover price $16.50

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