The Faustian Century
DOWNLOAD
Download The Faustian Century PDF/ePub or read online books in Mobi eBooks. Click Download or Read Online button to get The Faustian Century book now. This website allows unlimited access to, at the time of writing, more than 1.5 million titles, including hundreds of thousands of titles in various foreign languages. If the content not found or just blank you must refresh this page
The Faustian Century
DOWNLOAD
Author : James M. Van der Laan
language : en
Publisher: Camden House
Release Date : 2013
The Faustian Century written by James M. Van der Laan and has been published by Camden House this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013 with History categories.
New essays revealing the enduring significance of the story made famous in the 1587 Faustbuch and providing insights into the forces that gave the sixteenth century its distinct character. The Reformation and Renaissance, though segregated into distinct disciplines today, interacted and clashed intimately in Faust, the great figure that attained European prominence in the anonymous 1587 Historia von D. Johann Fausten. The original Faust behind Goethe's great drama embodies a remote culture. In his century, Faust evolved from an obscure cipher to a universal symbol. The age explored here as "the Faustian century" invested the Faustbuch and its theme with a symbolic significance still of exceptional relevance today. The new essays in this volume complement one another, providing insights into the tensions and forces that gave the century its distinctcharacter. Several essays seek Faust's prototypes. Others elaborate the symbolic function of his figure and discern the resonance of his tale in conflicting allegiances. This volume focuses on the intersection of historical accounts and literary imaginings, on shared aspects of the work and its times, on concerns with obedience and transgression, obsessions with the devil and curiosity about magic, and quandaries created by shifting religious and worldlyauthorities. Contributors: Marguerite de Huszar Allen, Kresten Thue Andersen, Frank Baron, Günther Bonheim, Albrecht Classen, Urs Leo Gantenbein, Karl S. Guthke, Michael Keefer, Paul Ernst Meyer, J. M. van der Laan, Helen Watanabe-O'Kelly, Andrew Weeks. J. M. van der Laan is Professor of German and Andrew Weeks is Professor of German and Comparative Literature, both at Illinois State University.
Framing Faust
DOWNLOAD
Author : Inez Hedges
language : en
Publisher: SIU Press
Release Date : 2009-03-10
Framing Faust written by Inez Hedges and has been published by SIU Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2009-03-10 with Performing Arts categories.
In this interdisciplinary cultural history that encompasses film, literature, music, and drama, Inez Hedges follows the thread of the Faustian rebel in the major intellectual currents of the last hundred years. She presents Faust and his counterpart Mephistopheles as antagonistic—yet complementary—figures whose productive conflict was integral to such phenomena as the birth of narrative cinema, the rise of modernist avant-gardes before World War II, and feminist critiques of Western cultural traditions. Framing Faust: Twentieth-Century Cultural Struggles pursues a dialectical approach to cultural history. Using the probing lens of cultural studies, Hedges shows how claims to the Faustian legacy permeated the struggle against Nazism in the 1930s while infusing not only the search for socialist utopias in Russia, France, and Germany, but also the quest for legitimacy on both sides of the Cold War divide after 1945. Hedges balances new perspectives on such well-known works as Thomas Mann’s Dr. Faustus and Jack Kerouac’s Dr. Sax with discussions of previously overlooked twentieth-century expressions of the Faust myth, including American film noir and the Faust films of Stan Brakhage. She evaluates musical compositions—Hanns Eisler’s Faust libretto, the opera Votre Faust by Henri Pousseur and Michel Butor, and Alfred Schnittke’s Faust Cantata—as well as works of fiction and drama in French and German, many of which have heretofore never been discussed outside narrow disciplinary confines. Enhanced by twenty-four illustrations, Framing Faust provides a fascinating and focused narrative of some of the major cultural struggles of the past century as seen through the Faustian prism, and establishes Faust as an important present-day frame of reference.
Lives Of Faust
DOWNLOAD
Author : Lorna Fitzsimmons
language : en
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter
Release Date : 2011-10-13
Lives Of Faust written by Lorna Fitzsimmons and has been published by Walter de Gruyter this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2011-10-13 with Literary Criticism categories.
This book is an interdisciplinary reader on the Faust theme in literature and music from the Reformation to the present. Essays by Faust scholars set the texts in context. Peter Werres introduces the collection with The Changing Faces of Dr. Faustus. Osman Durrani and Gerald Strauss discuss contexts of the Faust Book, given in the English translation The Historie of the Damnable Life and Deserved Death of Doctor John Faustus. David Wootton compares Marlowe’s Doctor Faustus and the English Faust Book. Klaus L. Berghahn’s analysis of transformations of the theme and seventeenth- and eighteenth-century performance announcements contextualize the popular Puppet-Play of Doctor Faust. Works of Faustian music include the ballad The Just Judgment of God shew’d upon Dr. John Faustus, Berlioz’s The Damnation of Faust, and Gounod’s Faust. Essays by Henry Bacon and Steven R. Cerf engage the Faust theme in Romantic music and twentieth-century opera. Osman Durrani introduces 19th-Century American Fausts, represented by Hawthorne’s The Birthmark, and excerpts from Ethan Brand and Melville’s Moby Dick. Faust themes in the 20th and 21st centuries are represented by Valéry’s My Faust, Shapiro’s The Progress of Faust, Osman Durrani’s overview of Faust globalized, and Paul M. Malone’s work on the Faust theme in rock opera. A reading list is included.
The Faust Myth
DOWNLOAD
Author : D. Hawkes
language : en
Publisher: Springer
Release Date : 2007-01-22
The Faust Myth written by D. Hawkes and has been published by Springer this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2007-01-22 with Literary Criticism categories.
This book traces the evolution of the Faust myth from the Sixteenth century to modern times. The authors studied include Marlowe, Calderon, Milton, Goethe, Byron, Dostoevsky, Wilde, Thomas Mann, and Salman Rushdie.
Faustus And The Promises Of The New Science C 1580 1730
DOWNLOAD
Author : Christa Knellwolf King
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2016-12-05
Faustus And The Promises Of The New Science C 1580 1730 written by Christa Knellwolf King and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016-12-05 with Literary Criticism categories.
Having identified the literary origins of the Faustus legend in the German Faust Book (1587) and its English translation (1592), this book argues that these works transformed a simple rogue's tale into an incisive study of morality and beliefs. The chapbooks' contrastive portrayal of an imaginary experience of hell and a pseudo-scientific journey through the cosmos is interpreted as an unconventional approach to the questions of an inquiring mind. This study offers the first analysis of the chapbooks as literary works in their own right, as opposed to simply being sources for Christopher Marlowe's play. It is also the first study to describe the Faustus typology as a vehicle by which uncompromising thinkers of early modernity and the Enlightenment questioned contemporary views about religion, morality and the possibility of experiencing transcendence. While arguing that Marlowe's Doctor Faustus primarily examines the imaginary foundations of religious rules and standards, the author suggests that the 1616 version of the play revived the chapbooks' accounts of spiritual ravishment and intellectual ecstasy. Imaginary explorations of cosmic space became popular in the seventeenth century and gave rise to strongly diverging works of literature, embracing the arcane spirituality of Milton's Paradise Lost as well as Fontenelle's sociable but essentially secular fantasy of cosmic travel. This book shows that contemporary responses to early modern science also tended to address the most urgent concerns of the Faustus legend, explaining the re-emergence of the typology in Mountfort's late seventeenth-century farcical Faustus play and early eighteenth-century harlequinades about Doctor Faustus
Faust Through Four Centuries Vierhundert Jahre Faust
DOWNLOAD
Author : Peter Boerner
language : en
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter
Release Date : 2013-03-12
Faust Through Four Centuries Vierhundert Jahre Faust written by Peter Boerner and has been published by Walter de Gruyter this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-03-12 with Literary Criticism categories.
Faustus
DOWNLOAD
Author : Leo Ruickbie
language : en
Publisher: The History Press
Release Date : 2011-10-24
Faustus written by Leo Ruickbie and has been published by The History Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2011-10-24 with History categories.
Five hundred years ago a legend was born. The seeker after forbidden knowledge is lured into signing a pact with the Devil. He enjoys the fruits of his deal in wild adventures, riotous high-living and in the arms of beautiful women, but cannot escape his end in the fiery clutches of Satan. That is the story that has inspired genius, high art and popular culture around the world, from Beethoven to Cradle of Filth. Hundreds of performances of Goethe's Faust are staged nightly. Souls are even put up for auction on eBay. The legend of Faustus has assumed a life of its own. But is it the real story? In the first major biography in five hundred years, Dr Ruickbie reveals the truth behind the infamous legend and uncovers the true identity of the man who scandalised sixteenth century Europe. Against all our wildest imaginings Faustus was not a charlatan, nor was he in league with the Devil. We should not think of him as the pact scribbling diabolist, but as a renaissance magician, albeit controversial and condemned by his peers. In an age of spiritual hunger, economic collapse, war and prophecies of doom – an age not unlike the Renaissance – it is a story for our times.
Faustus His Life Death And Doom
DOWNLOAD
Author : Friedrich Maximilian Klinger
language : en
Publisher: Good Press
Release Date : 2019-12-12
Faustus His Life Death And Doom written by Friedrich Maximilian Klinger and has been published by Good Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019-12-12 with Fiction categories.
Faustus His Life, Death, and Doom is the story of a priest who invented the special sciences of Printing and necromancy. Excerpt: "His first attainment was the remarkable invention of Printing, but his second was horrible. He discovered, almost fortuitously, the dreadful formula by which devils are called out of hell, and made subservient to the will of man. But as yet he had not exerted his power, out of love to his immortal soul, for whose welfare every Christian is so anxious. At this period he was in the full bloom of manhood. Nature had favored him in his person, and had given him a noble and expressive countenance."
The Faust Tales Of Christoph Rosshirt A Critical Edition With Commentary
DOWNLOAD
Author : J. M. Van Der Laan
language : en
Publisher: Camden House (NY)
Release Date : 2019-04-17
The Faust Tales Of Christoph Rosshirt A Critical Edition With Commentary written by J. M. Van Der Laan and has been published by Camden House (NY) this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019-04-17 with History categories.
The first cohesive Faust narrative in facsimile form, German transcription, and (first-ever) English translation, plus a history of Faust illustrations and an assessment of Faust's historicity.
The Reception Of Goethe S Faust In England In The First Half Of The Nineteenth Century
DOWNLOAD
Author : William Frederic Hauhart
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1909
The Reception Of Goethe S Faust In England In The First Half Of The Nineteenth Century written by William Frederic Hauhart and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1909 with categories.