International Faust studies : adaptation, reception, translation / edited by Lorna Fitzsimmons.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Fitzsimmons, Lorna, 1957-

Series:

Continuum reception studies series.

Continuum reception studies

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Faust, -approximately 1540--Adaptations.

Faust.

Faust, -approximately 1540--Appreciation.

Faust, -approximately 1540--In literature.

Faust, -approximately 1540--In motion pictures.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (310 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

London ; New York : Continuum, c2008.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

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 Goet

Contents:

Global dominion : Faust and Alexander the Great / Arnd Bohm

Hanswurst, Kasperle, Pickelharing and Faust / Jane Curran

'Why all this noise?' Reading sound in Goethe's Faust I and II / Alan Corkhill

Technology as timelessness : building and language in Faust / Claudia Brodsky

Faust and Satan : conflicting concepts of the devil in Faust I / Ehrhard Bahr

'Much in the mode of Goethe's Mephistopheles' : Faust and Byron / Fred Parker

'An orphic tale' : Goethe's Faust translated by Coleridge / Frederick Burwick

On the reception of Faust in Asia / Adrian Hsia

Goethe's Faust in India : the Kathakali adaptation / David G. John

Faust's spectacular travels through China : recent Faust productions and their history / Antje Budde

Faust and the Magus tradition in Robertson Davies' The rebel angels / Richard Ilgner

They sold their soul for rock'n'roll : Faustian rock musicals / Paul M. Malone

The Faustian disguise of Edoardo Sanguineti and Luca Lombardi / Gabriele Becheri

Contemporary African and Brazilian adaptations of Goethe's Faust in postcolonial context / Katharina Keim

Reality just arrived : Mark Ravenhill's Faust is dead / Bree Hadley.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9786612874840

9781282874848

1282874845

9781441150837

1441150838

OCLC:

676698988