International Faust Studies: Adaptation, Reception, Translation

Brief Description: A collection of essays by leading scholars presenting international perspectives on adaptation, reception and translation of the Faust theme in literature, theatre and music. Marc Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index. Table of Contents: Notes on Contributors -- Introduction / Lorna Fitzsimmons -- Part I. Anteriorities -- 1. Global Dominion: Faust and Alexander the Great / Arnd Bohm -- 2. Hanswurst, Kasperle, Pickelh&aumlet;ring and Faust / Jane Curran -- Part II. Faust: In Context -- 3. 'Why all this noise?': Reading Sound in Goethe's Faust I and II / Alan Corkhill -- 4. Technology as Timelessness: Building and Language in Faust / Claudia Brodsky -- 5. Faust and Satan: Conflicting Concepts of the Devil in Faust I / Ehrhard Bahr -- Part III. Faust: Romantic Intertexts -- 6. 'Much in the mode of Goethe's Mephistopheles': Faust and Byron / Fred Parker -- 7. 'An orphic tale': Goethe's Faust Translated by Coleridge / Frederick Burwick -- Part IV. Asia -- 8. On the Reception of Faust in Asia / Adrian Hsia -- 9. Goethe's Faust in India: The Kathakali Adaptation / David G. John -- 10. Faust's Spectacular Travels through China: Recent Faust Productions and Their History / Antje Budde -- Part V. The Americas, Europe, Africa and Britain -- 11. Faust and the Magus Tradition in Robertson Davies' The Rebel Angels / Richard Ilgner -- 12. They Sold Their Soul for Rock'n'Roll: Faustian Rock Musicals / Paul M. Malone -- 13. The Faustian Disguise of Edoardo Sanguineti and Luca Lombardi / Gabriele Becheri -- 14. Contemporary African and Brazilian Adaptations of Goethe's Faust in Postcolonial Context / Katharina Keim -- 15. Reality Just Arrived-Mark Ravenhill's Faust is Dead / Bree Hadley -- Index. Review Citations:

Reference and Research Bk News 05/01/2009 pg. 260 (EAN 9781847060044, Hardcover)

Contributor Bio:  Fitzsimmons, Lorna Lorna Fitzsimmons is Associate Professor at California State University, Dominguez Hills, Los Angeles, USA.