Lorna Fitzsimmons

Goethe's Faust and Cultural Memory

Comparatist Interfaces

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Produktbeschreibung

This book is an interdisciplinary collection of essays examining Goethe's Faust and its derivatives in European, North American, and South American cultural contexts. Topics include the authority of the word in Faust and Dr.Faustus, cultural memory of Herder, the Eternal-Feminine, Coleridge's responses to Faust, Argentinean adaptations, performances by Peter Stein and the Goetheanum, Canadian reception of Faust, Werner Fritsch's multimedia project Faust Sonnengesang, and the relevance of Faust for models of artificial intelligence.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: University Press Copublishing Division
• Seitenzahl: 230
• Erscheinungstermin: 17. August 2012
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 236mm x 156mm x 25mm
• Gewicht: 480g
• ISBN-13: 9781611461220
• ISBN-10: 1611461227
• Artikelnr.: 35319415

Autorenporträt

By Lorna Fitzsimmons

Inhaltsangabe

Contents Introduction by Lorna Fitzsimmons 1 The Faustian Contest with the
Authority of the Word by Alan Corkhill 2 The Enigmatic Eternal-Feminine by
J. M. van der Laan 3 Herder as Faust by Robert E. Norton 4 Coleridge
Critique of Goethe's Faust by Frederick Burwick 5 Remembering Faust in
Argentina by Andrew Bush 6 The Complete Faust of Stage: Peter Stein and the
Goetheanum by David G. John 7 Faustian Tesserae in the Cultural Mosaic:
Contemporary Canadian Interplay with Goethe's Faust by Jörg Esleben 8
Goethe's Faust in Werner Fritsch's "Theater of the Now" by Susanne Ledanff
9 Homunculus' Quest for a Body by Bruce J. MacLennan About the Contributors
Index