Introduction Part I. Three Renaissance Myths: 1. From George Faust to Faustbuch 2. The tragicall history of the life and death of Doctor Faustus 3. Don Quixote of La Mancha 4. El burlador and Don Juan 5. Renaissance individualism and the Counter-Reformation Part II. From Puritan Ethic To Romantic Apotheosis: 6. Robinson Crusoe 7. Crusoe, ideology, and theory 8. Romantic apotheosis of Renaissance myths 9. Myth and individualism Part III. Coda: Thoughts On The Twentieth Century: I. Thomas Mann's Doctor Faustus II. Michel Tournier's Friday III. Some notes on the present Appendix.
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