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Does the Devil lie at the heart of the creative process? In The Devil as Muse, Fred Parker offers an entirely fresh reflection on the age-old question, echoing William Blake's famous statement: "the true poet is of the Devil's party." Expertly examining three literary interpretations of the Devil and his influence upon the artist---Milton's Satan in Paradise Lost, the Mephistopheles of Goethe's Faust, and the one who offers daimonic creativity in Thomas Mann's Doctor Faustus---Parker unveils a radical tension between the ethical and the aesthetic. While the Devil is the artist's necessary…
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1 edition- Other · English · 2011Baylor University Press · 207 pages · 9781602582699
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