Devil's Contract and Redemption: a Study of the Devil's Contract Motif in German Literature
by Hu Yifan
About This Novel
The devil's contract as a literary motif has existed before the Middle Ages and can be traced back to certain chapters of the Bible. The devil's contract motif keeps pace with the times and remains timeless. It is active in literary creation in Germany and other countries around the world across time and space. On the basis of referring to existing literature, this book conducts a comprehensive study on the Devil's Contract motif: on the one hand, it looks at the changes of the motif itself from the origin and development of the Devil's Contract, and makes a horizontal comparison of Devil's Contract texts in the same literary period, exploring the diversity of the same motif under the interpretation of different writers; on the other hand, This book takes Goethe's "Faust", Chamiso's "The Adventures of Peter Schlemiel" and Gotthelf's "The Black Spider" as examples to analyze and interpret the basic elements of the devil's contract: the image of the devil, the signer, the content of the contract, the form of the contract, the ending of the contract, etc., Focusing on the topic of redemption in the story of the devil's contract.
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