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The Devil Notebooks
Laurence Rickels
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Description for The Devil Notebooks
Paperback. Num Pages: 392 pages, 1 b&w illustration. BIC Classification: HRQX9; JFCA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 25. Weight in Grams: 499.
This sequel to The Vampire Lectures takes on the Devil
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 ... Read moreA stunning cultural and psychological analysis, The Devil Notebooks shows how the prince of occult has been used—throughout history and across cultures—to represent people’s primal fear of authority and humanity’s universal suffering. Sharing this cultural moment with the idea of evil being bandied about in our political discourse, the supposed satanic influence of pop music on our children, and a wildly popular book series on the end of the world, The Devil Notebooks is a sweeping and timely work that sheds light on the source of human fear and dread in the world. Show LessProduct Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2008
Publisher
University of Minnesota Press United States
Number of pages
392
Condition
New
Number of Pages
392
Place of Publication
Minnesota, United States
ISBN
9780816650521
SKU
V9780816650521
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About Laurence Rickels
Laurence A. Rickels is professor of German and comparative literature at the University of California, Santa Barbara. His books include The Vampire Lectures and The Case of California, both from Minnesota.
Reviews for The Devil Notebooks
"Laurence A. Rickels’s punning, associative, and extravagant style serves not only to refresh material worked over by critics for a century but also pulls the reader along in a way we’d expect more from summer beach reading than from literary criticism. This shouldn’t be surprising, however, since with its narrative of desire, projection, and denial The Devil Notebooks is every ... Read more