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Record Nr.

UNINA9910823685503321

Autore

Fitzsimmons Lorna <1957->

Titolo

Goethe's Faust and cultural memory : comparatist interfaces / / Lorna Fitzsimmons

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Bethlehem, : Lehigh University Press

Lanham, MD, : Rowman & Littlefield Pub. Group, c2012

ISBN

1-283-63959-9

1-61146-123-5

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (231 p.)

Disciplina

832.6

Soggetti

German drama - 19th century - History and criticism

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Contents; List of Figures; Introduction; Ch01. The Faustian Contest with the Authority of the Word; Ch02. The Enigmatic Eternal-Feminine; Ch03. Herder as Faust; Ch04. Coleridge's Critique of Goethe's Faust; Ch05. Remembering Faust in Argentina; Ch06. The Complete Faust on Stage: Peter Stein and the Goetheanum; Ch07. Faustian Tesserae in the Cultural Mosaic; Ch08. Goethe's Faust in Werner Fritsch's "Theater of the Now"; Ch09. Homunculus' Quest for a Body; Index; About the Contributors

Sommario/riassunto

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