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The Devil as Muse - Blake, Byron, and the Adversary (Paperback)
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The Devil as Muse - Blake, Byron, and the Adversary (Paperback)
Series: The Making of the Christian Imagination
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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 collaborator and liberating muse, from an
ethical standpoint the price paid for such creativity is nothing
less damnable than the Faustian pact--and the artist who is
creative in that way is seen as accursed, alienated, morally
disturbing. In their own different ways, Parker shows, Blake,
Byron, and Mann all reflect and acknowledge that tension in their
work, and model ways to resolve it through their writing. Linking
these literary conceptions with scholarship on the genesis of the
historical conception of the Devil and recent work on the role of
"otherness" in creativity, Parker insightfully suggests how
creative literature can feel its way back along the processes--both
theological and psychological--that lie behind such constructions
of the Adversary.
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