The Devil in Legend and Literature
Author | : Maximilian Josef Rudwin |
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Total Pages | : 384 |
Release | : 1970 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
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Author | : Maximilian Josef Rudwin |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 384 |
Release | : 1970 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
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Author | : Barbara Allen Woods |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 176 |
Release | : 2013-07 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : 9781258771744 |
Folklore Studies, No. 11, University Of California Publications. Additional Editors Are Charles Speroni And M. A. Zeitlin.
Author | : Victor Thomas Nash |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 172 |
Release | : 1975 |
Genre | : Devil in literature |
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Author | : Stephen Vincent Benet |
Publisher | : Dramatists Play Service Inc |
Total Pages | : 44 |
Release | : 1943-10 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 9780822203032 |
THE STORY: Jabez Stone, young farmer, has just been married, and the guests are dancing at his wedding. But Jabez carries a burden, for he knows that, having sold his soul to the Devil, he must, on the stroke of midnight, deliver it up to him. Shortly before twelve Mr. Scratch, lawyer, enters and the company is thunderstruck. Jabez bids his guests begone; he has made his bargain and will pay the price. His bride, however, stands by him, and so will Daniel Webster, who has come for the festivities. Webster takes the case. But Scratch is a lawyer himself and out-argues the statesman. Webster demands a jury of real Americans, living or dead. Very well, agrees the Devil, he shall have them, and ghosts appear. Webster thunders, but to no avail, and at last realizing Scratch can better him on technical grounds, he changes his tactics and appeals to the ghostly jury, men who have retained some love of country. Rising to the height of his powers, Webster performs the miracle of winning a verdict of Not Guilty.
Author | : Maximilian J. Rudwin |
Publisher | : E-Kitap Projesi & Cheapest Books |
Total Pages | : 372 |
Release | : 2024-01-25 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 6155565554 |
Of all the myths which have come down to us from the East, and of all the creations of Western fancy and belief, the Personality of Evil has had the strongest attraction for the mind of man. The Devil is the greatest enigma that has ever con-fronted the human intelligence. So large a place has Satan taken in our imagination, and we might also say in our heart, that his expulsion therefrom, no matter what philosophy may teach us, must for ever remain an impossibility. As a character in imagi-native literature Lucifer has not his equal in heaven above or on the earth beneath. In contrast to the idea of Good, which is the more exalted in proportion to its freedom from anthropomor-phism, the idea of Evil owes to the presence of this element its chief value as a poetic theme. The discrowned archangel may have been inferior to St. Michael in military tactics, but he cer-tainly is his superior in matters literary. The fair angels—all frankness and goodness—are beyond our comprehension, but the fallen angels, with all their faults and sufferings, are kin to us. There is a legend that the Devil has always had literary aspi-rations. The German theosophist Jacob Böhme relates that when Satan was asked to explain the cause of God's enmity to him and his consequent downfall, he replied: "I wanted to be an author." Whether or not the Devil has ever written anything over his own signature, he has certainly helped others compose their greatest works. It is a significant fact that the greatest im-aginations have discerned an attraction in Diabolus. What would the world's literature be if from it we eliminated Dante's Divine Comedy, Calderón's Marvellous Magician, Milton's Paradise Lost, Goethe's Faust, Byron's Cain, Vigny's Eloa, and Lermon-tov's Demon? Sorry indeed would have been the plight of litera-ture without a judicious admixture of the Diabolical. Without the Devil there would simply be no literature, because without his intervention there would be no plot, and without a plot the story of the world would lose its interest. Even now, when the belief in the Devil has gone out of fashion, and when the very mention of his name, far from causing men to cross themselves, brings a smile to their faces, Satan has continued to be a puissant personage in the realm of letters. As a matter of fact, Beelzebub has perhaps received his greatest elaboration at the hands of writers who believed in him just as little as Shake-speare did in the ghost of Hamlet's father.
Author | : Hannes Vatter |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 264 |
Release | : 1978 |
Genre | : Devil in literature |
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Author | : Edward G. Flight |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 28 |
Release | : 2011-01-01 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 9781612039053 |
The True Legend of St. Dunstan and the Devil: Showing how the Horse-Shoe Came to be a Charm Against Witchcraft. "A man's worst wish for his enemy is that he might write a book," is a generally-received notion, of whose accuracy it is hoped there is no impertinence in suggesting a doubt. To reflect on having contributed, however slightly, to the innocent amusement of others, without giving pain to any, is alone an enjoyment well worth writing for. But when even so unpretending a trifle as this is, can, besides, bring around its obscure author fresh and valuable friendships, the hackneyed exclamation would appear more intelligible if rendered thus: "Oh, that my friend would write a book " In former days, possibly, things may have been very different from what they now are. Haply, the literary highway may, heretofore, have been not particularly clean, choked with rubbish, badly drained, ill lighted, not always well paved even with good intentions, and beset with dangerous characters, bilious-looking Thugs, prowling about, ready to pounce upon, hocus, strangle, and pillage any new arrival. But all that is now changed. Now, the path of literature is all velvet and roses. The race of quacks and impostors has become as extinct, as are the saurian and the dodo; and every honest flourisher of the pen, instead of being tarred and feathered, is hailed as a welcome addition to "the united happy family"-of letters.