FAUST NCE 2E PA

by Goethe, Johann Wolfgang von; Hamlin, Cyrus; Arndt, Walter

• ISBN13: 9780393972825
• ISBN10: 0393972828
• Edition: 2nd
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 1998-11-05
• Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company

Summary

Walter Arndt's translation of Faust reproduces the sense of the German original and Goethe's enormously varied metrics and rhyme schemes. This edition presents Parts I and II complete. Cyrus Hamlin provides essential supporting material for this difficult text, and his Interpretive Notes have been expanded and reset in larger, easy-to-read type. "Comments by Contemporaries" includes short pieces by Margaret Fuller, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Thomas Carlyle, and Wilhelm von Humboldt. "Modern Criticism"--comprised of ten essays newly added to the Second Edition--presents the perspectives of Stuart Atkins, Jaroslav Pelikan, Benjamin Bennett, Franco Moretti, Friedrich A. Kittler, Neil M. Flax, Marc Shell, Jane Brown, Hans Rudolf Vaget, and Marshall Berman. A Selected Bibliography is included.

Table of Contents

Preface	ix
The Text of Faust. A Tragedy	1	(344)
The Tragedy's First Part	12	(123)
Walpurgis Night	110	(10)
Walpurgis Night's Dream or the Golden Wedding of Oberon and Titania. Intermezzo	120	(15)
The Tragedy's Second Part in Five Acts	135	(210)
Act I	135	(52)
Act II	187	(12)
Classical Walpurgis Night	199	(42)
Act III [Helena. Classical-Romantic Phantasmagoria]	241	(46)
Act IV	287	(26)
Act V	313	(32)
Interpretive Notes	345	(148)
Contexts	493	(78)
Selected Illustrations for Faust	494	(11)
The Composition of Faust	505	(9)
Goethe on Faust	514	(36)
From Goethe's Autobiography	514	(1)
From Italian Journey	515	(1)
Faust Plan of 1800	515	(1)
From Goethe's Correspondence with Schiller, 1794--1801	516	(5)
Outline of the Contents for Part Two	521	(2)
Second Sketch for the Announcement of the Helena	523	(7)
From Goethe's Letters and His Conversations with Eckermann	530	(20)
Comments by Contemporaries	550	(21)
Response to the Newly Published Fragment of Faust	550	(1)
Wilhelm von Humboldt
First Impression of Faust	551	(1)
Henrik Steffens
Review of the Fragment of 1790	552	(1)
August Wilhelm Schlegel
On Hamlet and Faust as Philosophical Tragedies	553	(2)
Friedrich Schlegel
On Faust as Tragicomedy	555	(2)
Friedrich Wilhelm Joseph Schelling
Paraphrase of Faust, from The Phenomenology of Mind	557	(1)
Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
``Faustus''	558	(2)
Madame de Stael
First Notice of Faust in English	560	(3)
Thomas Carlyle
Faust	563	(2)
Heinrich Heine
``Goethe''	565	(2)
Margaret Fuller
General Remarks on Goethe	567	(4)
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Modern Criticism	571	(160)
Survey of the Faust Theme	573	(13)
Stuart Atkins
Faust as Doctor of Theology	586	(12)
Jaroslav Pelikan
Interrupted Tragedy as a Structural Principal in Faust	598	(13)
Benjamin Bennett
Goethe's Faust as Modern Epic	611	(23)
Franco Moretti
Faust and Discourse Networks	634	(16)
Friedrich A. Kittler
The Presence of the Sign in Goethe's Faust	650	(18)
Neil M. Flax
The Economics of Translation in Goethe's Faust	668	(20)
Marc Shell
The Spirit of Water: Faust, Part Two, Act II	688	(16)
Jane K. Brown
The Ethics of Faust's Last Actions	704	(11)
Hans Rudolf Vaget
Faust as Developer	715	(13)
Marshall Berman
What the Lovers in the Old Songs Thought	728	(3)
John Hollander
A Chronology	731	(4)
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Selected Bibliography	735