Details

Autor(en) / Beteiligte

• Wollgast, Siegfried

Titel

Essential Theoretical Writings

Ist Teil von

• Daphnis, 2012-01, Vol.41 (1), p.295

Ort / Verlag

Leiden: Brill Academic Publishers, Inc

Erscheinungsjahr

2012

Quelle

ProQuest_Literature Online_英美文学在线

Beschreibungen/Notizen

• (S. 502-615) Darin sind "theological allusions [...] largely subliminal, confined to the fact that the term tartarus may allude to Hell and that arcane spirits guide the process of digestion as does divine spirit the processes of creation". The birth-giving matrix as a likeness of the world's creation in Genesis extends this reasoning so that human conception and birth appear as a microcosm of cosmogony [...] since the elements are also understood as matrices or 'mothers', the work in effect extends and fleshes aut Paracelsus' cosmology." Buch diskutiert er "scriptural grounds for an appropriation of the magical powers of the satanic enemy to serve human purposes. [...] his warnings and insinuations offer an evocative reprise of the no man's land between God and satan in the age of Martin Luther and Dr. Faustus". Zudem gelte: "Intentional ambiguities show up in stylistic figures, word play, rhetorical riddles, in the counterintuitive assertion or paradox, the willful omission of premises of syllogistic argumentation (enthymeme), and [...] in complex allusions which are essential to the context and meaning of his theoretical writings."