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.
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.
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.
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.
Nessun testo richiede di essere interpretato in modo così continuo come il Faust di Goethe. Riconsiderata in relazione alla progressiva virtualizzazione dell'esperienza tipica della nostra epoca, la ...doppia tragedia goethiana interessa noi, il suo pubblico del XXI secolo, per l'attraversamento dei confini tra il reale e il virtuale. Ciò consente un'interpretazione del testo sulla falsariga della filosofia del simulacro di Baudrillard, integrata da ulteriori spunti teorici. La virtualità e il simulacro sono quindi da considerarsi parti di uno stesso campo tematico che attraversa l’opera. Strettamente collegata a esso è la mediatizzazione dell'esperienza, attraverso la quale il soggetto diventa una presenza ibrida, disincarnata, decontestualizzata e non situata, fluttuante entro una serie di iperrealtà. La presente ipotesi interpretativa si concentra su questo aspetto, che è strettamente legato alla questione del simulacro e del suo rapporto con il postumano, e in particolare sulle figure di Homunculus e Elena, attraverso cui giunge a evidenza il lato fantasmagorico del Faust. Mentre nel primo caso la simulazione dell'umano in vitro è associata a una forma ridotta di vita che privilegia la mente sul corpo, nel secondo la questione si sposta sulla relazione tra il maschile e l'eterno femminino. I due personaggi ci invitano dunque a riflettere sull’esperienza disincarnata, così come sulle valenze estetiche e poetiche del simulacro nel dramma goethiano e al di là di esso.
Robert Schumann Vande Moortele, Steven
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Eerste volume in de nieuwe reeks Operatheek In het eerste deel van de reeks Operatheek breekt musicoloog Steven Vande Moortele een lans voor de Szenen aus Goethes Faust, het monumentale meesterwerk ...voor solisten, koor en orkest van Robert Schumann. In drie hoofdstukken gaat deze compacte gids achtereenvolgens in op Schumanns adaptatie van Goethes oorspronkelijke toneeltekst, de positie van de Faust-Szenen in Schumanns oeuvre en in de muziek van de negentiende eeuw, en de algemene opbouw en de muzikale hoogtepunten van het stuk.
Hidden mutualities link the work of major postcolonial writers with Christopher Marlowe's drama of the Faustian pact - the manipulation of the material world in exchange for the soul - written as the ...'scientific' world-view was emerging which accompanied the imperial expansion of Europe and has determined the economic and social structures of the colonial and postcolonial world. This fascinating study brings together researches in widely different fields to show how Doctor Faustus reflects a Gnostic / Hermetic tradition marginalized within the dominant European power structures. Rediscovered in the Renaissance, and combined with occult arts such as alchemy and magic, this living tradition informs the work of 'Magus' figures such as Pico della Mirandola, Marcilio Ficino, Trithemius, Johannes Reuchlin, Agrippa of Nettesheim, Paracelsus and John Dee, who are reflected in the Faust tradition and in Prospero in Shakespeare's The Tempest. The second part investigates the dual legacy of the Magus. A counterpoint between a law-governed objective material world and an occult visionary pursuit of the divine potential of the human imagination is traced through the examples of Johan Kepler, Robert Fludd, Isaac Newton, William Blake, Rudyard Kipling, Aleister Crowley, W.B. Yeats, Wolfgang Pauli and C.G. Jung. In the third part, textual analysis reveals how attention to these Faustian themes opens new and exciting critical perspectives in appreciating the works of postcolonial writers, in particular Dimetos by Athol Fugard, Disappearance by David Dabydeen, Omeros by Derek Walcott, and the novels of Wilson Harris.
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