The Devil, the Saints, and the Church

Reading Hochhuth's The Deputy

Emanuela Barasch-Rubinstein (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

124 Seiten

2003
Peter Lang Publishing Inc (Verlag)
978-0-8204-6358-2 (ISBN)

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Rolf Hochhuth’s The Deputy, a play written and staged almost two decades after the end of World War II, asks why Pope Pius XII avoided a public condemnation of the Nazi regime and the mass murder. In this book, Emanuela Barasch-Rubinstein explores the explicit and implicit religious motifs in Hochhuth’s The Deputy. She discusses the various aspects of the devil acting in the concentration camp, the two figures of the saints – one Catholic, the other Protestant – and the ecumenical practical and theoretical arguments. The author’s detailed analysis of Hochhuth’s play reveals a modern attempt to revive religious traditions of the past, according to which historical events are interpreted as manifestations of transcendent beings. The concentration camp is the kingdom of evil, and the pope’s silence is God’s failure in his ancient battle with the devil.

Verlagsort	New York
Sprache	englisch
Gewicht	300 g
Themenwelt	Literatur ► Lyrik / Dramatik ► Dramatik / Theater
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Religion / Theologie
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Anglistik / Amerikanistik
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Germanistik
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Literaturwissenschaft
	Recht / Steuern ► Öffentliches Recht ► Kirchenrecht
ISBN-10	0-8204-6358-2 / 0820463582
ISBN-13	978-0-8204-6358-2 / 9780820463582
Zustand	Neuware