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Title Authors Description OpenBook ID
Demonic History Demonic History Kirk Wetters In this ambitious book, Kirk Wetters traces the genealogy of the demonic in German literature from its imbrications in Goethe to its varying legacies in the work of essential authors, both canonical … OL20338554W
Facing the fiend Facing the fiend Eva Marta Baillie "Satan is not a theological concept, but a literary character. Systematic and pastoral theology struggles with the existence of Satan and at the same time, the devil inspires authors, poets, artists,… OL20958100W
Vintage Book of the Devil Vintage Book of the Devil Francis Spufford The devil lives in our imagination, at once menacing and strangely attractive - our oldest symbol of evil, a figure of folklore and the instantly recognizable hero of a 1000 cartoons. We can't seem t… OL2706774W
Satan unbound Satan unbound Peter Dendle "The devil is perhaps the single most recurring character in Old English narrative literature, and yet his function in the highly symbolic narrative world of hagiography has never been systematically… OL5992233W