Periodicity and intimations of a Judaic universe in David Mamet’s Faustus

Safaei, Mohammad

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Periodicity and intimations of a Judaic universe in David Mamet’s Faustus

dc.contributor.author	Safaei, Mohammad
dc.date.accessioned	2018-07-04T10:07:42Z
dc.date.available	2018-07-04T10:07:42Z
dc.date.created	2018
dc.date.issued	2018-07-04
dc.description.abstract	David Mamet’s Faustus presents a complex amalgam of various ideas, traditions and cultures. After a preliminary discussion in this essay on the adaptive status of Mamet’s Faustus and on the myth of Faustus throughout history, I approach the notion of periodicity and time in the play, in its religious and anthropological contexts. I further investigate the same theme in tandem with the Nietzschean doctrine of eternal recurrence and its intersection with Judaism and, in specific, with Jewish philosopher Soloveitchik’s conception of halakhic man and its antithetical selves, namely cognitive man and homo religiosus. Exploring the echoes of Jewish existentialism in the works of Soloveitchik, I argue that the play, which is categorized as a typical adaptation of Marlowe’s Doctor Faustus, posits serious questions as to human existence and the significance of intellectual negation and spiritual challenge within a Judaic universe. The essay, beyond the analysis of intertextuality in Mamet’s Faustus, tends to underscore the play’s distinguished contribution to the myth of Faustus from a Judaic perspective.	es
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dc.format.extent	17	es
dc.identifier.issn	1989-6131
dc.identifier.uri	http://hdl.handle.net/10201/59826
dc.language	eng	es
dc.relation.ispartofseries	International Journal of English Studies, Vol. 18 (1), 2018	es
dc.rights	info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess	es
dc.subject	Mamet	en_EN
dc.subject	Faustus	en_EN
dc.subject	Eternal recurrence	en_EN
dc.subject	Judaism	en_EN
dc.subject	Religious time	en_EN
dc.subject	Existentialism	en_EN
dc.subject.other	CDU::8- Lingüística y literatura::81 - Lingüística y lenguas	es
dc.title	Periodicity and intimations of a Judaic universe in David Mamet’s Faustus	en_EN
dc.type	info:eu-repo/semantics/article	es
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