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... with the courtly romance? W. WOLFGANGHOLDHEIM Cornell University The Mothers in “Faust”: The Myth of Time and Creativity. By HAROLD JANTZ.Baltimore: Johns Hopkins Press, 1969. 96 pp. $6.95. In Harold Jantz’s long series of investigations...

...Hildegarde Drexl Hannum Copyright © 1974 by Duke University Press 1974 SELF-SACRIFICE IN DOKTOR FAUSTUS THOMAS MAN”S CONTRIBUTION TO THE FAUST LEGEND By HILDEGARDEDREXL HANNUM The basis...

...Alan P. Cottrell Copyright © 1982 by Duke University Press 1982 FAUST AND THE REDEMPTION OF INTELLECT By ALANP. COTTRELL By the time of his death on March 22, 1832, the aged Goethe felt the events of the times to be so confused as to preclude...

... of commentators have found it necessary to discuss the semantic prob- lem which arises from the apparently self-contradictory description of Faust’s habitat. It must be regretted all the more, therefore, that some of the best-informed Goethe scholars-e.g., Erich Schmidt in the Jubilaums-Azcsgabe...

... Indiana University Goethe’s Faust: A Literary Analysis. By STUARTATKINS. Cambridge: Har- vard University Press, 1958. Pp. xi 4- 290. $6.00. Fuwt criticism, more than that of almost any other literary work, has from its very start been misdirected toward a sometimes petty, sometimes...

... the treatment of the imagery and the structural handling of this episode within the context of the play lead one to conclude that this unlovely creature is directly related to cer- tain central aspects of Faust’s experience of the world. The present study will undertake to point to those specific...

... of Goethe’s Fuust has varied according to the critic as well as the times. In opposition to Wolfgang Menzel’s exaggerated attack on Faust’s salvation (in the second part) and to Gervinus’, Fr. Th. Vischer’s, and Vilmar’s rejection of Faust I1 stands a group of eminent scholars (Duntzer, Kuno...

... then is the answer to and summation of Miss Butler’s efforts to provide rather complete background material for the development of Faust in literature. Most of her material, quite understandably, pertains to German Fausts, although she gives sufficient emphasis to the early English Faust-books...

.... At any rate, his noble effort should be greeted with applause from Anglicists everywhere. CARROLLE. REED University of Wahington Rhythmen und Landscltaften in meiten Teil des Faust. By PAULFRIEDLAENDER. Weimar : Hermann...

... reputation, but critical theory in general, are “permanently” enriched in these essays? MALCOLMBROWN University of Washington Cocthe’s Faust as a Renaissance Man: Parallels and Prototypes. By HAROLD JANTZ. Princeton : Princeton...

...Stuart Atkins Copyright © 1953 by Duke University Press 1953 SOME LEXICOGRAPHICAL NOTES ON GOETHE’S FAUST By STUARTATKINS When Hohlfeld-Joos-Twaddell’s Wortindex zu Goethes Faust was published in 1940, its great value...

... in Goethe’s Faust . The evil that Franzen repeatedly takes up and probes, which I call Faustian, represents a trajectory of aparadigmatic evil. In teasing out the path of evil across Franzen’s and Goethe’s oeuvres, the second section foregrounds the historical dimension of the argument: as a vessel...

... as a foreign language, and text linguistics. He has received the Freud Prize for scholarly writing, the Premio Calabria for literature, and the Duden Prize for service to the German language. Topics of particular current interest are memory and politeness. Faust’s Forgetting Harald Weinrich...

...A. B. Faust Otto Heller and Theodore H. Leon, Washington University Studies, New Series, language and Literature, No. 11, July, 1941. Pp. v + 154. $1. 50. Copyright © 1942 by Duke University Press 1942 REVIEWS The Language of Charles seals field-A Study...

... the date of Bruford’s preface); Jantz’s “Goethe’s Faust as a Renaissance Man” probably appeared too late for the results to be embodied in the chapter on Fuust. When Bruford singles out Gerstenberg as the one whose criticism and drama called forth Lessing’s derogatory remarks on “genius...

..., dealing with Faustian literature, is clearly in order. This third volume then is the answer to and summation of Miss Butler’s efforts to provide rather complete background material for the development of Faust in literature. Most of her material, quite understandably, pertains...

... Entstchung immer werth gewesen” (with “unvor- hergeselicn” and “aus dem Stegreife . . . ohne . . . fruher eine Ahnung” ; see below n. 24). 1‘’ Grundtvig, loc. cif. See also Goethe’s “Ritter Curts Brautfahrt.” I “Man grcife nun nach Miidchcn, Kronen, Gold” (Faust 11, 7102). Sintenis...

... Scott’s translation in 1799 and the composition of the Waverley novels. Byron’s enthusiastic outburst about Faust is well known: “I would give the world to read Faust in the original.” Shelley translated the majestic hymns of the three Archangels in the “Prologue.” But the true apostles...

... moments of Elizabethan drama. Built as they are around Faustus’ choice of necromancy and the terrible final consequences of that choice, these scenes set forth the essential Faust-theme with an urgency that transcends the dubious and scat- tered middle section of Christopher Marlowe’s tragedy...

... to understand how this curiously garbled story could have inspired the almost lyrical eulogy with which Hales introduces it The tide seems to turn in the late thirties. Faust’s over-all assess- ‘J. W. Hales and F. J. Furnivall, eds., Bishop Percy’s Folio Manuscript, I11 (London, 1868). 19...