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The stark theological polarities of damnation and salvation have haunted representations of guilt in Western culture for thousands of years. Friedrich Ohly's classic study The Damned and the Elect, first published in English in 1992, offers a comparative cultural history of figures such as Oedipus, Judas and Faust, from antiquity, through the Middle Ages, into modern times. Looking at the works of writers such as Sophocles, Dante, Marlowe, Bunyan, Goethe, and Thomas Mann (and illustrating his ideas with reference to representation in the visual arts), Ohly's wide-ranging arguments weave deftly across different cultures and periods to illuminate one of the most salient themes in Western literature.

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Book category Books in English Society & social sciences Society & culture: general Cultural studies

• Full title: Damned and the Elect
• Subtitle: Guilt in Western Culture
• Author: Friedrich OhlyLinda ArchibaldGeorge Steiner
• Language: English
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 226
• EAN: 9780521154666
• ISBN: 0521154669
• ID: 02024093
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Weight: 29 g
• Dimensions: 218 × 140 × 19 mm
• Date of publishing: 26. August 2010

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