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DEVILS. The definition and derivation of the term devil need to be carefully delineated. This need for care in defining devil arises from the fact that the very class of creatures being designa...
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In the following essay, originally published in 1931, Rudwin considers the sympathetic portrayal of Satan in nineteenth-century poetry.
The reversal of poetic judgment with regard to the Devil is amon...
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In the following essay, Godwin-Jones details peasant superstitions related to the Devil in representative works by George Sand and Annette von Droste-Hülshoff.
Both George Sand and Annette von ...
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In the following essay, Corrigan highlights parallels between the devil of Ivan's dream in Feodor Dostoevsky's The Brothers Karamazov and Plato's philosophical conception of evil....
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In the following excerpt, Weiner describes the demonological elements of Nikolai Gogol's novel Dead Souls and their relationship to the novelist's authorial persona.
Sobakevich, Pliushki...
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In the following essay, Vatter surveys figures bearing qualities of the Miltonic Satan in the writings of English Romantic poets and Gothic novelists.
The first step towards a freer development of the...
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In the following essay, Bush explicates Paddy McGann, a picaresque dialect novel that features a comical and symbolic representation of the Devil.
William Gilmore Simms's most notable wartime p...
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In the following essay, Zug traces folklore elements in Washington Irving's “The Devil and Tom Walker,” viewing the story as a masterful blending of German and American folk motif...
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In the following essay, Stein investigates Nathaniel Hawthorne's use of the Faustian myth in his short stories to examine man's ability to profit morally from an encounter with evil.
Wit...
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Devils
Critical Essay by Maximilian Rudwin
