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Devil's contract the history of the Faustian bargain

"From ancient times to the modern world, the idea of the Faustian bargain--the exchange of one's soul in return for untold riches and power--has exerted a magnetic pull upon our collective imaginations. Scholar Ed Simon takes us on a historical tour of the Faustian bargain, from the Bible to blues,...

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Main Author: Simon, Ed (Writer) (Author)
Format: Books Print Book
Language:English
Published: Brooklyn, NY : Melville House Publishing, 2024.
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Faust > (Legendary character) > Criticism and interpretation > History.
Faust, > -approximately 1540 > In literature.
Decision making > Moral and ethical aspects.
Good and evil > History.
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Table of Contents:
  • Appointment at Deptford
  • Simon Magus: Arch-Heretic, Supreme Necromancer
  • Christ in the Desert: Two Millennia of Lent
  • Of Saints and Succubi: Medieval Diabolical Contracts
  • Great Reckonings, Small Rooms: Searching for the Historical Faust
  • A Devil Too Many: Kit Marlowe and the Conjuring of Dr. Faust
  • Going Upstairs, Coming Downstairs: On Witches' Sabbaths and Black Masses
  • Faust Is an Artist: Christoph Haizmann and the Internal Painting
  • A Romantic Hell: Goethe Saves Faust
  • Melodies of Damnation: Faust Is a Musician and Composer
  • Mephistopheles Is American: Faustian Contracts in the United States
  • The Darkest of Arts: Totalitarianism in the Faustian Century
  • Mephistopheles in Hollywood: The Faustian Desires of Entertainment
  • The Destroyer of Worlds: Condemned to Apocalypse in the Faustocene.

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