The Devil as Muse. Blake, Byron, and the Adversary. By Fred Parker
Fred Parker, Senior Lecturer in English at Cambridge University with a research interest in 18th century and Romantic literature explores the idea of the Devil as the artist’s necessary and liberating muse and the moral corruption of that pact. Appearing in the series The Making of the Christian Ima...
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| Format: | Electronic Review |
| Language: | English |
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Oxford University Press
2013
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Literature and theology
Year: 2013, Volume: 27, Issue: 4, Pages: 497-499 |
| Review of: | The Devil as muse (Waco, Tex. : Baylor Univ. Press, 2011) (Baillie, Eva)
The Devil as muse (Waco, Tex. : Baylor Univ. Press, 2011) (Baillie, Eva) |
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| Summary: | Fred Parker, Senior Lecturer in English at Cambridge University with a research interest in 18th century and Romantic literature explores the idea of the Devil as the artist’s necessary and liberating muse and the moral corruption of that pact. Appearing in the series The Making of the Christian Imagination, Parker’s book contributes a closer reading of Blake and Byron and their dialogue with the diabolic, embedded in a discussion of three powerful literary interpretations of the Devil in Thomas Mann’s Doctor Faustus, Milton’s Paradise Lost, and Bulgakov’s The Master and Margarita. Parker’s book explores the notion of a radical tension between the ethical and the aesthetic through the idea of the Devil as muse, wherein the creative artist is seen as diabolically sponsored or inspired. |
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| ISSN: | 1477-4623 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: Literature and theology
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1093/litthe/frs060 |