Overview

This major interdisciplinary collection captures the vitality and increasingly global significance of the Faust figure in literature, theatre and music. Bringing together scholars from around the world, International Faust Studies examines questions of adaptation, reception and translation centering on Faust discourse in a diversity of cultural contexts, including the Chinese, Japanese, Indian, African, Brazilian and Canadian, as well as the European, British and American. It broadens the field by including studies of lesser known or neglected Faust discourse, including the translation of Goethe's Faust recently attributed to Coleridge, in addition to the canonical.

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Author:   Dr Lorna Fitzsimmons
Publisher:   Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Imprint:   Continuum International Publishing Group Ltd.
Dimensions:   Width: 15.60cm , Height: 2.80cm , Length: 23.40cm
Weight:   0.635kg
ISBN:  

9781847060044

ISBN 10:   1847060048
Pages:   310
Publication Date:   23 October 2008
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   Manufactured on demand  
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Language:   English

Table of Contents

Introduction: Lorna Fitzsimmons (California State University) Part I: Anteriorities 1. Global Dominion: Faust and Alexander the Great: Arnd Bohm (Carleton University) 2. Hanswurst, Kasperle, Pickelharing and Faust, Jane Curran (Dalhousie University, Canada) Part II: Faust in Context 3. 'Why all this noise?':Reading Sound In Faust I & II: Alan Corkhill (University of Queensland) 4. Technology as Timelessness: Building and Language in Faust: Claudia Brodsky (Princeton University) 5. Faust and Satan: Conflicting Concepts of the Devil in Faust I, Ehrhard Bahr (UCLA) Part III: Faust: Romantic Intertexts 6. 'Much In The Mode Of Goethe's Mephistopheles': Faust And Byron: Fred Parker (University of Cambridge) 7. 'An orphic tale': Goethe's Faust translated by Coleridge: Frederick Burwick (UCLA) Part IV: Asia 8. The Reception of Faust In Asia: Adrian Hsia (McGill University) 9. Goethe's Faust In India: The Kathakali Adaptation: David G. John (University of Waterloo) 10. Faust's Spectacular Travels Through China: Recent Faust Productions and their History: Antje Budde (University of Toronto) Part V: The Americas, Europe, Africa and Britain 11. Faust And The Magus Tradition In The Rebel Angels By Robertson Davies: Richard Ilgner (Dalhousie University) 12. They Sold Their Soul for Rock'n'Roll: Faustian Rock Musicals, Paul M. Malone (University of Waterloo) 13. The Faustian Disguise of Edoardo Sanguinetti and Luca Lombardi, Gabriela Becheri (Il Trillo) 14. Contemporary African and Brazilian Adaptations of Goethe's Faust in Post-Colonial Context, Katharina Keim (Ludwig-Maximilians-University) 15. Reality Just Arrived - Mrk Ravenhill's Faust is Dead, Bree Hadley (Queensland University of Technology) Index

Reviews

In tracing Faust's epic journey in discourses, music and on stage Lorna Fitzsimmons prepared a magnificent volume offering informative, rich and well-researched essays... the essays are meticulously researched and admirably edited.--Sanford Lakoff

An outstanding contribution to our understanding of how and why the myth of Faustus has evolved over many centuries and adapted itself to the temper of successive cultures. - Professor Osman Durrani, School of European Culture and Languages, University of Kent at Canterbury--Sanford Lakoff Reviewed in The Journal of Theatre Research International, Vol 35/2 - 2010 'The collection ... manages to make ... a very strong contribution to a field that has already been very much studied.' In tracing Faust's epic journey in discourses, music and on stage Lorna Fitzsimmons prepared a magnificent volume offering informative, rich and well-researched essays... the essays are meticulously researched and admirably edited.--Sanford Lakoff

Reviewed in The Journal of Theatre Research International, Vol 35/2 - 2010 'The collection ... manages to make ... a very strong contribution to a field that has already been very much studied.'

Author Information

Lorna Fitzsimmons is Associate Professor at California State University, Dominguez Hills, Los Angeles, USA.

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