Lives of Faust : the Faust theme in literature and music : a reader / edited by Lorna Fitzsimmons.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Fitzsimmons, Lorna, 1957-

Series:

De Gruyter Textbook

De Gruyter textbook

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Faust, -approximately 1540--Fiction.

Faust.

Faust, -approximately 1540--In literature.

Faust, -approximately 1540--Songs and music.

Faust, -approximately 1540--Songs and music--History and criticism.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (520 p.)

Edition:

Rev. ed.

Place of Publication:

Berlin ; New York : Walter de Gruyter, c2008.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

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 Marlowe's Doctor Faustus and the English Faust Book. Klaus L. Berghahn'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 shew'd upon Dr. John Faustus, Berlioz's The Damnation of Faust, and Gounod's Faust. Essays by Henry Bacon and Steven R. Cerf engage the Faust theme in Romantic music and twentieth-century opera. Osman Durrani introduces 19th-Century American Fausts, represented by Hawthorne's The Birthmark, and excerpts from Ethan Brand and Melville's Moby Dick. Faust themes in the 20th and 21st centuries are represented by Valéry's My Faust, Shapiro's The Progress of Faust, Osman Durrani's overview of Faust globalized, and Paul M. Malone's work on the Faust theme in rock opera. A reading list is included.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Contents

Acknowledgements

Preface / Fitzsimmons, Lorna

Introduction - The Changing Faces of Dr. Faustus / Werres, Peter

I. The Historical Faustus

I. The Historical Faustus / Durrani, Osman

II. The Faust Books

How to Read a Volksbuch: The Faust Book of 1587 / Strauss, Gerald

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 / Wootton, David

Early Faust Music / Durrani, Osman

The Just Judgment of GOD shew'd upon Dr. John Faustus

Transformations of the Faust Theme / Berghahn, Klaus L.

Documents

The Puppet-Play of Doctor Faust

IV. The Faust Theme in Romantic Music

The Faust Theme in Romantic Music / Bacon, Henry

The Damnation of Faust / Berlioz, Hector

Faust. An Opera in Five Acts / Gounod, Charles

V. 19th-Century American Fausts

19th-Century American Fausts / Durrani, Osman

The Birthmark / Hawthorne, Nathaniel

Ethan Brand. A Chapter from an Abortive Romance / Hawthorne, Nathaniel

Moby-Dick (excerpts) / Melville, Herman

VI. Faust in the 20th and 21 st Centuries

The Faust Theme in Twentieth-Century Opera / Cerf, Steven R.

My Faust (excerpt) / Valéry, Paul

Faust in the Nuclear Age / Durrani, Osman

The Progress of Faust / Shapiro, Karl

Faust Globalized / Durrani, Osman

Faust Rock Opera / Malone, Paul M.

Suggestions for Further Reading

Index

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 08. Jul 2019)

ISBN:

9783110973976

3110973979

OCLC:

979596521