Goethes Faust

Author : Lorraine Byrne Bodley
Publisher : Boydell & Brewer
Page : 358 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2017
Category : Faust (Legendary character)
ISBN : 9781783272006

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Music in Goethe's Faust by Lorraine Byrne Bodley Pdf

Frontcover -- Contents -- List of Illustrations -- Contributors -- Acknowledgements -- Abbreviations Used in the Notes -- Introduction. Rhapsody and Rebuke: Goethe's Faust in Music -- Part I Goethe's Faust: Content and Context -- 1 The Redress of Goethe's Faust in Music History -- 2 Wagering on Modernity: Goethe's Eighteenth-Century Faust -- 3 Reflectivity, Music and the Modern Condition: Thoughts on Goethe's Faust -- 4 Music and Metaphorical Thinking in Goethe's Faust: The Example of Harmony -- 5 Faust: The Instrumentalisation of an Icon -- Part II Legacies: Goethe's Faust in the Nineteenth Century -- 6 Faust's Schubert: Schubert's Faust -- 7 The Musical Novel as Master-genre: Schumann's Szenen aus Goethes Faust -- 8 The Psychology of Schumann's Faust: Developing the Human Soul -- 9 A Life with Goethe: Wagner's Engagement with Faust in Music and in Words -- 10 Wagner's Ninth: Reading Beethoven with Faust -- 11 Linking Christian and Faustian Utopias: Mahler's Setting of the Schlußszene in his Eighth Symphony -- Part III Topographies: Stagings and Critical Reception -- 12 Operatic Translation and Adaptation: Gounod's Faust, with a Tribute to Ken Russell -- 13 'Adapters, Falsifiers and Profiteers': Staging La Damnation de Faust in Monte Carlo and Paris, 1893-1903 -- 14 Faust in the Trenches: Busoni's Doktor Faust -- Part IV New Directions: Recent Productions and Appropriations -- 15 As Goethe Intended? Max Reinhardt's Faust Productions and the Aesthetics of Incidental Music in the Early Twentieth Century -- 16 Music and the Rebirth of Faust in the GDR -- 17 Music, Text and Stage: Peter Stein's Production of Goethe's Faust -- 18 'Devilishly good': Rudolf Volz's Rock Opera Faust and 'Event Culture' -- Select Bibligraphy -- Index

Author : J. M. van der Laan
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 213 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2007-02-01
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781441134752

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Seeking Meaning for Goethe's Faust by J. M. van der Laan Pdf

Faust stories are found across the ages and the arts. From its earliest to most recent expressions, the Faust figure continues to capture our imagination, dealing with problems and themes that are still relevant for a twenty-first century audience. Of the many variations on the Faust-myth, Goethe's remains especially provocative and laden with meaning and is the work most responsible for determining the subsequent character of the Faust archetype. His Faust reflects an individual who asserts, yet wrestles unrelentingly with the futility of faith, the bankruptcy of knowledge, and the loss of meaning. One of the greatest texts of both German and world literature, Faust, Parts I and II, confronts us with pressing questions about rebellion and suffering, faith and its loss, reality and simulation, order and chaos, weakness and power, technology and human improvement. This monograph offers a new interpretation of Goethe's famous play, emphasising its continuing significance today.

Author : John R. Williams
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 244 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2020-01-30
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 9781000761146

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Goethe's Faust by John R. Williams Pdf

Originally published in 1987, this is a thorough and lucid introduction and commentary to the whole of Goethe’s Faust. It gives the student of German and European literature valuable insights into the most important work of Germany’s foremost poet. German quotations are translated or paraphrased in English and a detailed knowledge of German literature is not assumed. The book traces Goethe’s work on the play over 60 years of his creative career and surveys its critical reception over the 200 years since its first appearance. Part One is analysed as a mimetic tragedy, Part Two as an historical and cultural profile of Goethe’s own times. The commentary guides the reader carefully through its subtleties and multi-layered references and provides a broad and coherent structure for the overall understanding of the work. It suggests provocative interpretations of some figures and episodes in Part Two and places renewed emphasis on parts of the work that often receive relatively little attention. An appendix surveys the metres and verse forms of the play.

Author : Steve Wilkerson
Publisher : Chiron Publications
Page : 326 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2019-06-20
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 9781630514129

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A Most Mysterious Union by Steve Wilkerson Pdf

Readers today are especially thrilled by the prospect of good news. Drought and global warming, civil war and famine, poverty and economic inequity—yes, bad news abounds. This book by Dr. Stephen Wilkerson, on the other hand, is about hope and optimism for the future. The recorded history of our world is largely one of a sometimes worthy patriarchal striving. It has, however, all too often been tarnished, marred, and horribly disfigured by the hatreds, intolerance, and destruction that have accompanied it. And the good news? There is another way, poignantly and persuasively outlined nearly two hundred years ago by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, involving the Divine Feminine. Goethe’s masterpiece, Faust, involves an immensely intelligent but profoundly narcissistic man, who cruelly and selfishly exploits and ultimately ruins the life of an innocent maiden. In the legend on which Goethe’s great work is based, Faust understandably winds up in Hell, just as he does in virtually every version of this well-known wager with the Devil. But in Goethe’s interpretation, the deeply flawed protagonist is received into Heaven by the Mother of God Herself. How and why can this be? Mankind’s long history of heroic accomplishment has never been sufficiently tempered by a sense of global community and cooperation that mitigate the horror and devastation that ever seem to march along beside a single-minded struggle to achieve and prevail. And how may this missing unity be brought about? Alchemy as understood in this book has nothing to do with an early and misguided chemistry and everything to do with the sort of individual transformation necessary for a better, more gracious, more inclusive world. The millennial patterns of blind violence and repression can only be ameliorated by a thoughtful and genuine embrace of open-minded reception of difference and heart-felt valuation of a larger, borderless world in which all grow together rather than further apart. Such is the promise of the final words in Goethe’s Faust: “The Divine Feminine leads us forward.”

Author : Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Publisher : Bantam Classics
Page : 466 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 1988-07-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780553213485

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Faust by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Pdf

Goethe’s masterpiece and perhaps the greatest work in German literature, Faust has made the legendary German alchemist one of the central myths of the Western world. Here indeed is a monumental Faust, an audacious man boldly wagering with the devil, Mephistopheles, that no magic, sensuality, experience, or knowledge can lead him to a moment he would wish to last forever. Here, in Faust, Part I, the tremendous versatility of Goethe’s genius creates some of the most beautiful passages in literature. Here too we experience Goethe’s characteristic humor, the excitement and eroticism of the witches’ Walpurgis Night, and the moving emotion of Gretchen’s tragic fate. This authoritative edition, which offers Peter Salm’s wonderfully readable translation as well as the original German on facing pages, brings us Faust in a vital, rhythmic American idiom that carefully preserves the grandeur, integrity, and poetic immediacy of Goethe’s words.

Author : Johann Wolfgang von Goethe,Albert Selss
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 350 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 1880
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OXFORD:N10277345

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Goethe's Faust by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe,Albert Selss Pdf

Author : Hans Schulte,John Noyes,Pia Kleber
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 347 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2011-05-05
Category : Drama
ISBN : 9781139496087

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Goethe's Faust by Hans Schulte,John Noyes,Pia Kleber Pdf

Faust has been called the fundamental icon of Western culture, and Goethe's inexhaustible poetic drama is the centrepiece of its tradition in literature, music and art. In recent years, this play has experienced something of a renaissance, with a surge of studies, theatre productions, press coverage and public discussions. Reflecting this renewed interest, leading Goethe scholars in this volume explore the play's striking modernity within its theatrical framework. The chapters present new aspects such as the virtuality of Faust, the music drama, the modernization of evil, Faust's blindness, the gay Mephistopheles, classic beauty and horror as phantasmagoria, and Goethe's anticipation of modern science, economics and ecology. The book contains an illustrated section on Faust in modern performance, with contributions by renowned directors, critics and dramaturges, and a major interview with Peter Stein, director of the uncut 'millennium production' of Expo 2000.

Author : Edward F. Edinger
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 122 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 1990
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : UVA:X001901545

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Goethe's Faust by Edward F. Edinger Pdf

Faust was Jung's lifelong companion. Here the dean of American analysts shows that Faust is at once a psychological portrait of the modern psyche, a symbolic description of a depth analysis and a guide to understanding alchemy.

Author : Jane K. Brown
Publisher : Cornell University Press
Page : 274 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 1986
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0801493900

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Goethe's Faust by Jane K. Brown Pdf

In this book, Jane K. Brown offers an original reading of Goethe's complex masterpiece in the context of European Romanticism. Looking at the two parts of Faust in sequence, she views the second part as an elaboration of what was implicit in the first, and she clarifies the patterns of thought and organization underlying the play. In Faust, she argues, Goethe not only situates German culture within the wider European literary tradition, but also demonstrates that all literature is by its nature allusive--that it exists only as part of a tradition.

Author : Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Publisher : Anchor
Page : 511 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 1962-12-04
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 9780385031141

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Goethe's Faust by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Pdf

The best translation of Faust available, this volume provides the original German text and its English counterpart on facing pages. Walter Kaufmann's translation conveys the poetic beauty and rhythm as well as the complex depth of Goethe's language. Includes Part One and selections from Part Two.

Author : Eudo C. Mason
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 436 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2023-11-10
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780520346123

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Goethe's Faust by Eudo C. Mason Pdf

This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press’s mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1967.

Author : J. M. van der Laan
Publisher : A&C Black
Page : 213 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2007-04-01
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780826493040

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Seeking Meaning for Goethe's Faust by J. M. van der Laan Pdf

Goethe's Faust Parts I and II (1808, 1832) is one of the most important texts in German, and World Literature - this monograph offers a new, original analysis of the text and its significance today

Author : Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 518 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 1928
Category : Electronic
ISBN : UVA:X000877026

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Goethe's Faust by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Pdf

Author : Lorna Fitzsimmons
Publisher : Lexington Books
Page : 231 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2012
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 9781611461220

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Goethe's Faust and Cultural Memory by Lorna Fitzsimmons Pdf

This book is an interdisciplinary collection of essays examining Goethe's Faust and its derivatives in European, North American, and South American cultural contexts. Topics include the authority of the word in Faust and Dr.Faustus, cultural memory of Herder, the Eternal-Feminine, Coleridge's responses to Faust, Argentinean adaptations, performances by Peter Stein and the Goetheanum, Canadian reception of Faust, Werner Fritsch's multimedia project Faust Sonnengesang, and the relevance of Faust for models of artificial intelligence.

Author : David W. Lovell,Heinz-Uwe Haus
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Page : 174 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2017-01-06
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781443862264

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Goethe's Faust I by David W. Lovell,Heinz-Uwe Haus Pdf

In March 2014, the University of Delaware’s Resident Ensemble Players staged the first Part of Goethe’s Faust, adapted and directed by Heinz-Uwe Haus, which forms the centrepiece and raison d’être of this book. This book tracks the creative process of Haus’s adaptation of the play and his attempts to elicit responses from his international networks to his question: how is Goethe’s Faust relevant today? It brings together comments from stage and costume designers as they brought their own creativity and understanding of the audience to bear on the play, and presents a brief record of the production itself, through stage directions and the photography of Bill Browning. The book then explores the reactions the production has elicited amongst some of its audience.