Mitos del individualismo moderno

In their original versions, the ultimate fates of Faust, Don Quixote, and Don Juan reflect the anti-individuals of their time: Faust and Don Juan are punished in hellfire, and Don Quixote is mocked. A century later, Defoe’s Robinson Crusoe embodies a more favourable consideration of the individual. Ian Watt examines these four myths of the modern world, all created in the sixteenth to eighteenth centuries, as distinctive products of a historically new society.

List of contents

Preface; Introduction; Part I. Three Renaissance Myths: 1. From George Faust to Faustbuch; 2. The Tragicall History of the Life and Death of Doctor Faustus; 3. Don Quixote of La Mancha; 4. El Burlador and Don Juan; 5. Renaissance individualism and the Counter-Reformation; Part II. From Puritan Ethic to Romantic Apotheosis: 6. Robinson Crusoe; 7. Crusoe, ideology, and theory; 8. Romantic apotheosis of Renaissance myths; 9. Myth and individualism; Coda: Thoughts on the Twentieth Century: Thomas Mann’s Doctor Faustus; Michael Tournier’s Friday; Some notes on the present; Appendix; Index.

Product details

• Authors: Ian Watt
• Assisted by: Miguel Martínez-Lage (Translation)
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Languages: Spanish
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 01.05.1999
• EAN: 9788483230497
• ISBN: 978-84-8323-049-7
• No. of pages: 320
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature; Non-fiction book > Philosophy, religion > Philosophy: general, reference works