Interpreting Goethe's Faust Today

by Brown, Jane K.; Lee, Meredith; Saine, Thomas P.

• ISBN13: 9781879751491
• ISBN10: 1879751496
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 1994-01-01
• Publisher: Camden House

Summary

This collection of essays on Goethe's Faust by prominent American and German scholars explores the work's significance in the context of recent historical, political, and scholarly developments and points to new directions for research. Topics include translation (into Indo-European languages), Faust's relationship to Mephistopheles, Faust and the feminine, sexual imagery, gothic allusions, musical representations of Faust, political and moral implications, Faust in the contemporary theatre, devils in German literature, Faust in the continuing debate over modern and postmodern, Goethe's stylistic use of complementary points of view, and his use of myth.

Table of Contents

Preface and Acknowledgments
Introduction
Bibliographical Note
Absorbing Modernization: The Dilemmas of Progress in the Novels of Walter Scott and in Faust II	p. 1
Faust's Membership in Male Society: Prometheus and Ganymede as Models	p. 17
Faust and the Ethos of Technology	p. 29
Act IV Revisited: A "Post-Wall" Reading of Goethe's Faust	p. 43
Der zivilisierte Teufel	p. 61
Faust and the Gothic Novel	p. 68
Faust's Harzreise	p. 81
Performing Mephistopheles	p. 94
Paradies und Parodie: Die letzten Szenen in Goethes letzten Werken	p. 102
Das Ewig-Weibliche nasfuhret dich: Feminine Leadership in Goethe's Faust and Sacher-Masoch's Venus	p. 112
Closing up Faust: The Final Lines According to Schumann, Liszt, and Mahler	p. 123
Gretchen and the Feminine in Goethe's Faust	p. 133
Tracking the Eternal-Feminine in Goethe's Faust II	p. 142
Dialektik der Vorstellungsarten als Prinzip in Goethes Faust II	p. 158
Das Drama als Ragout: Zur Metaphorik des Essens und Trinkens in Goethes Faust	p. 172
Goethe's Gothic Classicism: Antecedents to the Architecture of History in Faust II, Act III	p. 187
"alter tage fabelhaft Gebild": Goethes Mythen-bastelei im Faust II	p. 207
Goethe's Faust: Pre-Modern, Post-Modern, Proto-Postmodern	p. 219
Goethe's Faust at the Hands of Its Translators: Some Recent Developments	p. 231
Wandlungen des Faust-Bildes in Deutschland	p. 239
Directing Faust in America Today	p. 252
Faust-Inszenierungen in Deutschland, Frankreich und Italien seit 1980	p. 262
Index of Names	p. 271
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