The Devil As Muse by Fred Parker
Does the Devil lie at the heart of the creative process? In The Devil as Muse, Fred Parker offers an entirely fresh reflection on the age-old question, echoing William Blake's famous statement: the true poet is of the Devil's party.
"Beautifully written, effortlessly involving and engaging, The Devil as Muse is, like many of the books that it deals with, a great triumph of the ethical imaginationParker brilliantly combines great literary sensitivity with good, clear, honest feeling -- a work of Socratic imagination and humanity." --Gregory Dart, Senior Lecturer, University College of London
"Fred Parker has established himself as one of our shrewdest and most sensitive commentators on eighteenth-century literature. In The Devil as Muse he looks backwards (to Milton) and forwards (to Goethe, Blake, Byron, Thomas Mann, and Mikhail Bulgakov) in a searching, wide-ranging investigation -- as compulsively readable as it is subtly nuanced -- of the complex and equivocal relations between diabolism and literary inspiration. It is a fascinating inquiry into some of the most profound and mysterious sources of literary creativity." -- David Hopkins, Professor of English Literature, Bristol University
"Fred Parker has established himself as one of our shrewdest and most sensitive commentators on eighteenth-century literature. In The Devil as Muse he looks backwards (to Milton) and forwards (to Goethe, Blake, Byron, Thomas Mann, and Mikhail Bulgakov) in a searching, wide-ranging investigation -- as compulsively readable as it is subtly nuanced -- of the complex and equivocal relations between diabolism and literary inspiration. It is a fascinating inquiry into some of the most profound and mysterious sources of literary creativity." -- David Hopkins, Professor of English Literature, Bristol University
Fred Parker is Fellow of Clare College and Senior Lecturer in English at Cambridge University. His previous books are Johnson and Shakespeare and Skepticism and Literature: An Essay on Pope, Hume, Sterne, and Johnson.
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| ISBN 13 | 9781602582699 |
| ISBN 10 | 1602582696 |
| Title | The Devil As Muse |
| Author | Fred Parker |
| Series | The Making Of The Christian Imagination |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Hardback |
| Publisher | Baylor University Press |
| Year published | 2011-02-28 |
| Number of pages | 215 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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