The devil notebooks / Laurence A. Rickels.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Rickels, Laurence A.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Devil--Psychology.

Devil.

Psychoanalysis.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (396 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, c2008.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Milton's Paradise Lost. Goethe's Faust. Aaron Spelling's Satan's School for Girls? Laurence A. Rickels scours the canon and pop culture in this all-encompassing study on the Devil. Continuing the work he began in his influential book The Vampire Lectures, Rickels returns with his trademark wit and encyclopedic knowledge to go mano a mano with the Prince of Darkness himself. Revealing our astonishing obsession with Satan in his many forms, Rickels guides us on an entertaining and enlightening journey down the darkest corridors that film, music, folklore, theater, and literature have ever offere

Contents:

CONTENTS; PLEASE ALLOW ME TO INTRODUCE MYSELF; DEVIL FATHER; NOTEBOOK ONE; NOTEBOOK TWO; NOTEBOOK THREE; NOTEBOOK FOUR; NOTEBOOK FIVE; NOTEBOOK SIX; NOTEBOOK SEVEN; NOTEBOOK EIGHT; NOTEBOOK NINE; NOTEBOOK TEN; NOTEBOOK ELEVEN; NOTEBOOK TWELVE; NOTEBOOK THIRTEEN; NOTEBOOK FOURTEEN; NOTEBOOK FIFTEEN; NOTEBOOK SIXTEEN; MINE; NOTEBOOK SEVENTEEN; NOTEBOOK EIGHTEEN; NOTEBOOK NINETEEN; NOTEBOOK TWENTY; DEVIL FATHER MINE; NOTEBOOK TWENTY-ONE; NOTEBOOK TWENTY-TWO; NOTEBOOK TWENTY-THREE; NOTEBOOK TWENTY-FOUR; NOTEBOOK TWENTY-FIVE; NOTEBOOK TWENTY-SIX; REFERENCES; FILMOGRAPHY

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 369-376).

Includes filmography: p. 377-380.

ISBN:

0-8166-6634-2

OCLC:

318220196