Goethe's Faust and Cultural Memory: Comparatist Interfaces

by Lorna Fitzsimmons

This book is an interdisciplinary collection of essays examining Goethe's Faust and its derivatives in European, North American, and South American cultural contexts. It takes both a canonic and archival approach to Faust in studies of adaptations, performances, appropriations, sources, and the translation of the drama contextualized within cultural environments ranging from Gnosticism to artificial intelligence. Lorna Fitzsimmons' introduction sets...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1611461227
• ISBN13: 9781611461220
• Release Date: August 2012
• Publisher: Lehigh University Press
• Length: 230 Pages
• Weight: 1.05 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.0" x 9.1"
• Age Range: 22 years and up
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher