International Faust Studies: Adaptation, Reception, Translation

310 Pages·2008·1.806 MB·English

by  Lorna Fitzsimmons

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Contents
Notes on Contributors vii
Introduction 1
Lorna Fitzsimmons
PART I ANTERIORITIES
1 Global Dominion: Faust and Alexander the Great 17
Arnd Bohm
2 Hanswurst, Kasperle, Pickelhäring and Faust 36
Jane Curran
PART II FAUST: IN CONTEXT
3 ‘ Why all this noise?’: Reading Sound in
Goethe’s Faust I and II 55
Alan Corkhill
4 Technology as Timelessness: Building and Language in Faust 70
Claudia Brodsky
5 F aust and Satan: Confl icting Concepts of the Devil
in Faust I 88
Ehrhard Bahr
PART III FAUST: ROMANTIC INTERTEXTS
6 ‘ Much in the mode of Goethe’s Mephistopheles’:
Faust and Byron 107
Fred Parker
7 ‘An orphic tale’: Goethe’s Faust Translated by Coleridge 124
Frederick Burwick
PART IV ASIA
8 On the Reception of Faust in Asia 149
Adrian Hsia
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9 Goethe’s Faust in India: The Kathakali Adaptation 161
David G. John
10 Faust’s Spectacular Travels through China: Recent Faust
Productions and Their History 177
Antje Budde
PART V THE AMERICAS, EUROPE,
AFRICA AND BRITAIN
11 Faust and the Magus Tradition in Robertson Davies’
The Rebel Angels 205
Richard Ilgner
12 They Sold Their Soul for Rock’n’Roll:
Faustian Rock Musicals 216
Paul M. Malone
13 The Faustian Disguise of Edoardo Sanguineti and
Luca Lombardi 231
Gabriele Becheri
14 Contemporary African and Brazilian Adaptations of
Goethe’s Faust in Postcolonial Context 244
Katharina Keim
15 Reality Just Arrived—Mark Ravenhill’s Faust is Dead 259
Bree Hadley
Index 277
Notes on Contributors
EHRHARD BAHR is Distinguished Professor Emeritus of German at the
University of California, Los Angeles, United States. His publications include
Weimar on the Pacifi c: German Exile Culture in Los Angeles and the Crisis of Modern-
ism, The Novel as Archive: The Genesis, Reception, and Criticism of Goethe’s Wilhelm
Meisters Wanderjahre and Die Ironie im Spätwerk Goethes: ‘. . . diese sehr ernsten
Scherze . . .’ Studien zum West-östlichen Divan, zu den Wanderjahren und zu Faust II.
He was President of the Goethe Society of North America 1995–7.
GABRIELE BECHERI teaches piano and music theory at Il Trillo, Florence,
Italy. He has written books and essays on the music of the second half of the
twentieth century and the relationship between music and poetry. He has given
both solo and ensemble performances internationally.
ARND BOHM is Associate Professor of English at Carleton University,
Canada. His research interests include German literary history and Anglo-
German literary relations. He is the author of Goethe’s ‘Faust’ and European Epic:
Forgetting the Future and many pieces on both German and British literature.
CLAUDIA BRODSKY is Professor of Comparative Literature at Princeton
University, United States. She is the author of The Imposition of Form: Studies in
Narrative Representation and Knowledge, Lines of Thought: Discourse, Architectonics,
and the Origin of Modern Philosophy and In the Place of Language: Goethe and the
Architecture of the Referent.
ANTJE BUDDE is Assistant Professor in the University College Drama Pro-
gram and the Centre for Comparative Literature at the University of Toronto,
Canada. Her research interests include experimental theatre in China, intercul-
tural theatre, independent theatre in Germany and East German television. Her
publications include a book on the history of Chinese experimental theatre.
She is also active as a theatre director and performer and has staged productions
in Germany and China.
FREDERICK BURWICK is Professor Emeritus of English at the University
of California, Los Angeles, United States. His publications include twenty books
and over ninety articles. He has been named Distinguished Scholar by both
the British Academy (1992) and the Keats-Shelley Association (1998). He is co-
editor of Faustus, from the German of Goethe. T ranslated by Samuel Taylor Coleridge
(2007) and editor of the Coleridge Handbook.
JANE CURRAN is Professor and Chair of the German Department at
Dalhousie University, Canada. Her fi eld of concentration is the eighteenth cen-
tury and most of her publications have been in this area (Wieland, Goethe,
Schiller). Her current research topic focuses on reading aloud in Goethe’s world.
ALAN CORKHILL is Reader/Associate Professor in German in the School
of Languages and Comparative Cultural Studies at the University of Queensland,
Australia. He has published extensively on aspects of German letters since the
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Age of Goethe and on German-Australian literary and cultural cross-currents.
He is the author of four books, the latest entitled Glückskonzeptionen im deutschen
Roman von Wielands ‘Agathon’ bis Goethes ‘Wahlverwandtschaften’. He is the
Australasian co-editor of Seminar: A Journal of Germanic Studies.
LORNA FITZSIMMONS is Associate Professor and Coordinator of the
Humanities Program at California State University, Dominguez Hills, in Los
Angeles, United States. She has taught an interdisciplinary comparatist Faust
course for ten years. Her publications include The Lives of Faust: The Faust Theme
in Literature and Music. A Reader and Faust studies in The Germanic Review,
Studies in French Cinema and elsewhere. She is currently working on several
interdisciplinary books on Faust discourse.
BREE HADLEY is Lecturer in Performance Studies in the Creative Industries
Faculty at Queensland University of Technology, Australia. She has research
interests in contemporary, multimedia and physical performance and has worked
as a writer, dramaturge, director and arts administrator.
ADRIAN HSIA is Professor of German Studies at McGill University, Canada
(retired 2007) and Honorary Professor of Chinese at the University of Hong
Kong. He has published twenty-one books and eighty articles, including Zur
Rezeption von Goethes ‘Faust’ in Ostasien, Goethe und China—China und Goethe
and ‘Goethe’s “Faust” in Four Chinese Translations’.
RICHARD ILGNER taught German and Comparative Studies at Dalhousie
University until 1980, and since then German and Interdisciplinary Graduate
Studies in the Humanities at Memorial University, Canada. His publications
include Die Ketzermythologie in Goethes Faust and Das Geschäft der Lemuren: Der
Tod des Schöpferischen, as well as over a hundred presentations and articles on
topics in German and Interdisciplinary Studies.
DAVID G. JOHN is Professor of German, Department of Germanic and Slavic
Studies, at the University of Waterloo, Canada. His publications include Images
of Goethe through Schiller’s ‘Egmont’, The German Nachspiel in the Eighteenth
Century and Johann Christian Krüger. Werke. Kritische Gesamtausgabe. Recent
articles address Goethe and Schiller, as well as intercultural performances of
Goethe’s Faust in the United States, the Philippines and India. He is currently
writing a book on the East German director Fritz Bennewitz.
KATHARINA KEIM is Assistant Professor of Theatre Studies at Ludwig-
Maximilians-University, Germany. Her research and teaching areas include
classical and contemporary German and French theatre and postcolonial theatre.
She has published the study Theatralität in den späten Dramen Heiner Müllers
and co-edited the collection Theater ohne Grenzen. She also contributed to
H.-P. Bayerdörfer’s collection, Im Auftrieb: Grenzüberschreitungen mit Goethes
‘Faust’ in Inszenierungen der neunziger Jahre.
PAUL M. MALONE is Associate Professor of Germanic and Slavic Studies at
the University of Waterloo, Canada. His research interests include adaptation,
performance theory, Faust music, Kafka and Ödön von Horváth. He has pub-
lished in Faust: Icon of Modern Culture, Processes of Transposition: German Literature
and Film, Mediated Drama/Dramatized Media and Film/Fiction: Classics.
Notes on Contributors ix
FRED PARKER is Fellow and Director of Studies, Clare College and Uni-
versity Senior Lecturer in English, University of Cambridge, United Kingdom.
He specializes in eighteenth-century and Romantic English literature and
also teaches Faust for a foreign literature module. His publications include
Scepticism and Literature: An Essay on Pope, Hume, Sterne, and Johnson and Johnson’s
Shakespeare. He is currently working on a study of the devil as muse in literature
from Milton to Thomas Mann.