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  1. A Reader’s Companion to Mikhail Bulgakov’s The Master and Margarita
    Author: Curtis, J.A.E.
    Published: [2019]; © 2019
    Publisher:  Academic Studies Press, Boston, MA

    Mikhail Bulgakov’s novel The Master and Margarita, set in Stalin’s Moscow, is an intriguing work with a complex structure, wonderful comic episodes and moments of great beauty. Readers are often left tantalized but uncertain how to understand its... more

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    Brandenburgische Technische Universität Cottbus - Senftenberg, Universitätsbibliothek
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    Universität Potsdam, Universitätsbibliothek
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    Mikhail Bulgakov’s novel The Master and Margarita, set in Stalin’s Moscow, is an intriguing work with a complex structure, wonderful comic episodes and moments of great beauty. Readers are often left tantalized but uncertain how to understand its rich meanings. To what extent is it political? Or religious? And how should we interpret the Satanic Woland? This Reader’s Companion offers readers a biographical introduction, and analyses of the structure and the main themes of the novel. More curious readers will also enjoy the accounts of the novel’s writing and publication history, alongside analyses of the work’s astonishing linguistic complexity and a review of available English translations

     
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    Language: English
    Media type: Ebook
    Format: Online
    ISBN: 9781644690796
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    Series: Companions to Russian Literature
    Subjects: 20th century literature; Bulgakov; Christianity; Faust; Gogol; Jerusalem; Magical Realism; Moscow; Pontius Pilate; Russia; Russian literature; Soviet Union; Soviet literature; Stalin; Stalinism; The Master and Margarita; atheism; dark comedy; good and evil; modern literature; modernism; occult; oppressed writers; political satire; propaganda; satire; the Bible; the Devil; translation; LITERARY CRITICISM / Russian & Former Soviet Union
    Other subjects: Bulgakov, Michail (1891-1940): Master i Margarita
    Scope: 1 online resource (194 pages)
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    Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 24. Jan 2020)
  2. Melville's Bibles
    Author: Pardes, Ilana
    Published: [2008]; ©2008
    Publisher:  University of California Press, Berkeley, CA

    Many writers in antebellum America sought to reinvent the Bible, but no one, Ilana Pardes argues, was as insistent as Melville on redefining biblical exegesis while doing so. In Moby-Dick he not only ventured to fashion a grand new inverted Bible in... more

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    Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Bibliothek - Niedersächsische Landesbibliothek
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    Bibliotheks-und Informationssystem der Carl von Ossietzky Universität Oldenburg (BIS)
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    Many writers in antebellum America sought to reinvent the Bible, but no one, Ilana Pardes argues, was as insistent as Melville on redefining biblical exegesis while doing so. In Moby-Dick he not only ventured to fashion a grand new inverted Bible in which biblical rebels and outcasts assume center stage, but also aspired to comment on every imaginable mode of biblical interpretation, calling for a radical reconsideration of the politics of biblical reception. In Melville's Bibles, Pardes traces Melville's response to a whole array of nineteenth-century exegetical writings—literary scriptures, biblical scholarship, Holy Land travel narratives, political sermons, and women's bibles. She shows how Melville raised with unparalleled verve the question of what counts as Bible and what counts as interpretation

     
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  3. Masao Abe and the Problem of Evil in Buddhism and Christianity
    Author: Lehe, Robert Tad
    Published: [2019]

    In his prolegomena to "The Problem of Evil in Christianity and Buddhism," Masao Abe compares how Christianity and Buddhism explain the conflict between good and evil, the absolute ethical imperative to do good and avoid evil, and the problem that... more

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    In his prolegomena to "The Problem of Evil in Christianity and Buddhism," Masao Abe compares how Christianity and Buddhism explain the conflict between good and evil, the absolute ethical imperative to do good and avoid evil, and the problem that human beings inevitably fail to comply with that imperative. Abe argues that Buddhism and Christianity agree on the absoluteness of the imperative, but that Buddhism's notions of the relativity and interdependence of good and evil and "absolute nothingness" beyond good and evil make intelligible, as Christianity does not, the necessity of evil, without undermining the ethical imperative to do good, and solve the problem of the failure to overcome the duality of good and evil at the ethical level. I explore advantages and disadvantage of the responses of Buddhism and Christianity to the problem of evil, according to Abe's analysis. I argue that Buddhism enjoys an advantage in dealing with the origin of evil and the conflict between good and evil without the burden of Christianity's problem of theodicy, but suffers a difficulty in explaining why commitment to the ethical imperative is a prerequisite to enlightenment. Christianity's identification of the good with God gives an advantage in explaining the relation between the ethical imperative and the religious ultimate, but encounters the problem of explaining the origin of evil.

     
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    Language: English
    Media type: Article (journal)
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    Parent title: Enthalten in: Buddhist Christian studies; Honolulu, Hawaii : Univ. of Hawaii Press, 1981; 39(2019), Seite 217-226; Online-Ressource

    Subjects: emptiness; good and evil; kenotic; nirvana; problem of evil; sunyata; theodicy
  4. Shadows of the Bat
    Constructions of Good and Evil in the Batman Movies of Tim Burton and Christopher Nolan
    Author: Born, Simon Philipp
    Published: [2017]

    The superhero narrative is typically premised on the conflict between the hero and the villain, the mythical struggle between good and evil. It therefore promotes a Manichaeanworldview where good and evil are clearly distinguishable quantities.... more

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    The superhero narrative is typically premised on the conflict between the hero and the villain, the mythical struggle between good and evil. It therefore promotes a Manichaeanworldview where good and evil are clearly distinguishable quantities. This bipolar model is questioned in the Batman movies of Tim Burton and Christopher Nolan.Since his creation in 1939, Batman has blurred the line between black and white unlike any other classic comic book superhero. As a “floating signifier”, he symbolizes thepermeability of boundaries, for his liminal character inhabits a world between light and darkness, order and anarchy, hero and villain. Drawing on the complex ambiguity of the character, Tim Burton and Christopher Nolan deconstruct the traditional dichotomy of good and evil in the superhero narrative by reversing its polarity and emphasizing the fictionality of it all. Although they differ in style and method, both filmmakers invite us to overcome the Manichaean belief in favor of a more ambivalent and sophisticated viewpoint.

     
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    Language: English
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    Parent title: Enthalten in: Journal for religion, film and media; Graz : Institut f. Fundamentaltheologie, 2015; 3(2017), 1, Seite 75-104; Online-Ressource

    Subjects: Batman; duality; good and evil; Manichaeism; mythology; superhero; theatricality