International Faust Studies Adaptation, Reception, Translation

by Fitzsimmons, Lorna

• ISBN13: 9781847060044
• ISBN10: 1847060048
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2008-12-23
• Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic

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 Goethe's Faust recently attributed to Coleridge, in addition to the canonical. Book jacket.

Author Biography

Lorna Fitzsimmons is Associate Professor and Coordinator of Humanities at California State University, Dominguez Hills, Los Angeles, USA.

Table of Contents

Notes on Contributors	p. vii
Introduction	p. 1
Anteriorities
Global Dominion: Faust and Alexander the Great	p. 17
Hanswurst, Kasperle, Pickelhäet;ring and Faust	p. 36
Faust: In Context
'Why all this noise?': Reading Sound in Goethe's Faust I and II	p. 55
Technology as Timelessness: Building and Language in Faust	p. 70
Faust and Satan: Conflicting Concepts of the Devil in Faust I	p. 88
Faust: Romantic Intertexts
'Much in the mode of Goethe's Mephistopheles': Faust and Byron	p. 107
'An orphic tale': Goethe's Faust Translated by Coleridge	p. 124
Asia
On the Reception of Faust in Asia	p. 149
Goethe's Faust in India: The Kathakali Adaptation	p. 161
Faust's Spectacular Travels through China: Recent Faust Productions and Their History	p. 177
The Americas, Europe, Africa and Britain
Faust and the Magus Tradition in Robertson Davies' The Rebel Angels	p. 205
They Sold Their Soul for Rock'n'Roll: Faustian Rock Musicals	p. 216
The Faustian Disguise of Edoardo Sanguineti and Luca Lombardi	p. 231
Contemporary African and Brazilian Adaptations of Goethe's Faust in Postcolonial Context	p. 244
Reality Just Arrived-Mark Ravenhill's Faust is Dead	p. 259
Index	p. 277
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