Lorna Fitzsimmons (ed.)

Lives of Faust

The Faust Theme in Literature and Music. A Reader
Herausgegeben:Fitzsimmons, Lorna

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Produktbeschreibung

This book is an interdisciplinary reader on the Faust theme in literature and music from the Reformation to the present. Essays by Faust scholars set the texts in context. Peter Werres introduces the collection with The Changing Faces of Dr. Faustus. Osman Durrani and Gerald Strauss discuss contexts of the Faust Book, given in the English translation The Historie of the Damnable Life and Deserved Death of Doctor John Faustus. David Wootton compares Marloweâ??s Doctor Faustus and the English Faust Book. Klaus L. Berghahnâ??s analysis of transformations of the theme and seventeenth- and eighteenth-century performance announcements contextualize the popular Puppet-Play of Doctor Faust. Works of Faustian music include the ballad The Just Judgment of God shewâ??d upon Dr. John Faustus, Berliozâ??s The Damnation of Faust, and Gounodâ??s Faust. Essays by Henry Bacon and Steven R. Cerf engage the Faust theme in Romantic music and twentieth-century opera. Osman Durrani introduces 19^th-Century American Fausts, represented by Hawthorneâ??s The Birthmark, and excerpts from Ethan Brand and Melvilleâ??s Moby Dick. Faust themes in the 20^th and 21^st centuries are represented by Valeryâ??s My Faust, Shapiroâ??s The Progress of Faust, Osman Durraniâ??s overview of Faust globalized, and Paul M. Maloneâ??s work on the Faust theme in rock opera. A reading list is included.

Produktdetails

• De Gruyter Textbook
• Verlag: De Gruyter
• 2nd rev. edition
• Seitenzahl: 520
• Erscheinungstermin: 29. Juli 2008
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 236mm x 160mm x 33mm
• Gewicht: 894g
• ISBN-13: 9783110198232
• ISBN-10: 3110198231
• Artikelnr.: 23574203

Autorenporträt

Lorna Fitzsimmons, California State University, Dominguez Hills, USA.

Rezensionen

"Fitzsimmons unterteilt ihre Zusammenstellung von Bearbeitungen des Faust-Stoffes in sechs Teile [...]. Die Zusammenstellung kombiniert Primärquellen und einleitende Sekundärtexte, deren Auswahl freilich auf beiden Ebenen [...] kontingent scheint."
Marina Münkler in: Germanistik Redaktion 2011, Band 52, Heft 1-2