This major interdisciplinary collection captures the vitality and increasingly global significance of the Faust figure in literature, theatre, music and film. 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 Coleridge???s recently discovered translation of Goethe???s Faust, in addition to the canonical.
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"An outstanding contribution to our understanding of how and why the myth of Faustus has evolved over many centuries and adapted itself to the temper of successive cultures." - Professor Osman Durrani, School of European Culture and Languages, University of Kent at Canterbury -- Professor Osman Durrani, School of European Culture and Languages, University of Kent at Canterbury Reviewed in The Journal of Theatre Research International, Vol 35/2 - 2010 'The collection ... manages to make ... a very strong contribution to a field that has already been very much studied.' In tracing Faust's epic journey in discourses, music and on stage Lorna Fitzsimmons prepared a magnificent volume offering informative, rich and well-researched essays... the essays are meticulously researched and admirably edited. -- The European Legacy, Vol. 15, No. 7 Goethe's Faust, its two parts published almost a quarter of a century apart, is comparable only to Shakespeare's dramas in its capacity to speak anew to every age and culture. This is confirmed by the book under review, whose fifteen chapters, each by a different hand, cover a very wide area - geographically, culturally, linguistically, temporally, and in terms of performance practice. The list of contributors is impressive: all can claim expertise, and many distinction in their field . . . this is a worthwhile addition to Faust literature. -- Judith Purver, University of Manchester * BARS Bulletin *
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Lorna Fitzsimmons is Associate Professor at California State University, Dominguez Hills, Los Angeles, USA.
Introduction: Lorna Fitzsimmons (California State University); 1. Global Dominion And The Ambitions Of Faust: Arnd Bohm (Carleton University); 2. "Stand In Order, And Be Damn'd": William Mountfort's The Life And Death Of Doctor Faustus (1697): Judy A. Hayden (University of Tampa); 3. "Viel Larm Um Nichts?" Reading Sound In Faust I & II: Alan Corkhill (University of Queensland); 4. The Question Of Technology: Faust And Heidegger: Claudia Brodsky (Princeton University). 5. Much In The Mode Of Goethe's Mephistopheles: Faust And Byron: Fred Parker (University of Cambridge); 6. Coleridge's Translation Of Goethe's Faust: Frederick Burwick (UCLA); 7. The 'Faust' Legend in 20th and 21st century Music: Maria Lacche (University of Paris-Sorbonne, Paris IV); 8. The Myth Of Faust In The Works Of Klaus, Thomas, And Frido Mann: Leena Eilitta (University of Helsinki); 9. The Enchanted Hand: Faust And The European Art Film: Inez Hedges (Northeastern University); 10. The Reception Of Goethe's Faust In Asia: Adrian Hsia (McGill University); 11. Faust I In India: The Kathakali Adaptation: David G. John (University of Waterloo); 12. Faust And The Magus Tradition In The Rebel Angels By Robertson Davies: Richard Ilgner (Dalhousie University); 13. "The Devil Has All The Good Tunes": Faustian Rock: Paul Malone (University of Waterloo); 14. The Alchemy Of Power And Freedom - A Contextualisation Of Slobadan Snajder's Play Hrvatski Faust (The Croatian Faust): Duska Radosavljevic (University of Bristol); 15. Chinese Faust Productions: Antje Budde (Humboldt University); 16. Postcolonial Faust: Africa And Brazil: Katherina Keim (Ludwig Maximilians University); 17. Reality Just Arrived - Mark Ravenhill's Faust Is Dead: Bree Hadley (Queensland University of Technology); 18. The Performative Faust: The Symbolic Literative, The Liminal Interactive, The Reiterative Reenactive: Eric Hadley Denton (University of Applied Sciences in Berlin); Index.
