Lives of Faust : : The Faust Theme in Literature and Music. A Reader /

Lives of Faust : : The Faust Theme in Literature and Music. A Reader / / ed. by Lorna Fitzsimmons.

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...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter DGBA Backlist Complete English Language 2000-2014 PART1
MitwirkendeR:
Bacon, Henry,
Berghahn, Klaus L.,
Berlioz, Hector,
Cerf, Steven R.,
Durrani, Osman,
Fitzsimmons, Lorna,
Gounod, Charles,
Hawthorne, Nathaniel,
Malone, Paul M.,
Melville, Herman,
Shapiro, Karl,
Strauss, Gerald,
Valéry, Paul,
Werres, Peter,
Wootton, David,
HerausgeberIn:
Fitzsimmons, Lorna,
Place / Publishing House:Berlin ;, Boston : : De Gruyter, , [2011]
©2008
Year of Publication:2011
Edition:2. Aufl.
Language:English
Series:De Gruyter Textbook
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Physical Description:1 online resource (507 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • I-IV
  • Contents
  • Acknowledgements
  • Preface
  • Introduction – The Changing Faces of Dr. Faustus
  • I. The Historical Faustus
  • I. The Historical Faustus
  • II. The Faust Books
  • How to Read a Volksbuch: The Faust Book of 1587
  • The Historie of the Damnable Life and Dealignserved Death of Doctor John Faustus
  • III. Early Faust Plays and Music
  • Marlowe's Doctor Faustus and the English Faust Book
  • Early Faust Music
  • The Just Judgment of GOD shew'd upon Dr. John Faustus
  • Transformations of the Faust Theme
  • Documents
  • The Puppet-Play of Doctor Faust
  • IV. The Faust Theme in Romantic Music
  • The Faust Theme in Romantic Music
  • The Damnation of Faust
  • Faust. An Opera in Five Acts
  • V. 19th-Century American Fausts
  • 19th-Century American Fausts
  • The Birthmark
  • Ethan Brand. A Chapter from an Abortive Romance
  • Moby-Dick (excerpts)
  • VI. Faust in the 20th and 21 st Centuries
  • The Faust Theme in Twentieth-Century Opera
  • My Faust (excerpt)
  • Faust in the Nuclear Age
  • The Progress of Faust
  • Faust Globalized
  • Faust Rock Opera
  • Suggestions for Further Reading
  • Index

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