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Mephisto in the Third Reich : literary representations of evil in Nazi Germany

By Barasch-Rubinstein , Emanuela

Book information

Publisher
The Hebrew University Magnes Press, De Gruyter Oldenbourg;De Gruyter
Year
2015
ISBN
3110379384, 978-3-11-037938-9, 978-3-11-037943-3, 978-3-11-039578-5
Language
english
Format
EPUB
Filesize
966 kB (989297 bytes)
Pages
170\0
Time added
2015-12-23 22:00:00
Devil in literature. German liter

Description

The association of Nazism with the symbol of ultimate evil - the devil - can be found in the works of Klaus and Thomas Mann, Else Lasker-Schuler, and Rolf Hochhuth. He appears either as Satan of the Judeo-Christian tradition, or as Goethe's Mephisto. Barasch-Rubinstein looks into this phenomenon and analyzes the premise that the image of the devil had a substantial impact on Germans' acceptance of Nazi ideas

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