International Faust Studies

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.

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

Introduction: Lorna Fitzsimmons (California State University) Part I: Anteriorities 1. Global Dominion: Faust and Alexander the Great: Arnd Bohm (Carleton University) 2. Hanswurst, Kasperle, Pickelhäring and Faust, Jane Curran (Dalhousie University, Canada)  Part II: Faust in Context 3. 'Why all this noise?':Reading Sound In Faust I & II: Alan Corkhill (University of Queensland) 4. Technology as Timelessness: Building and Language in Faust: Claudia Brodsky (Princeton University) 5. Faust and Satan: Conflicting Concepts of the Devil in Faust I, Ehrhard Bahr (UCLA) Part III: Faust: Romantic Intertexts 6. 'Much In The Mode Of Goethe's Mephistopheles': Faust And Byron: Fred Parker (University of Cambridge) 7. 'An orphic tale': Goethe's Faust translated by Coleridge: Frederick Burwick (UCLA) Part IV: Asia 8. The Reception of Faust In Asia: Adrian Hsia (McGill University) 9. Goethe's Faust In India:  The Kathakali Adaptation: David G. John (University of Waterloo) 10. Faust's Spectacular Travels Through China: Recent Faust Productions and their History: Antje Budde (University of Toronto) Part V: The Americas, Europe, Africa and Britain 11. Faust And The Magus Tradition In The Rebel Angels By Robertson Davies: Richard Ilgner (Dalhousie University)   12. They Sold Their Soul for Rock'n'Roll: Faustian Rock Musicals, Paul M. Malone (University of Waterloo) 13. The Faustian Disguise of Edoardo Sanguinetti and Luca Lombardi, Gabriela Becheri (Il Trillo) 14. Contemporary African and Brazilian Adaptations of Goethe's Faust in Post-Colonial Context, Katharina Keim (Ludwig-Maximilians-University) 15. Reality Just Arrived - Mrk Ravenhill's Faust is Dead, Bree Hadley (Queensland University of Technology) Index