.... BARNETT 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...

...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...

...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 for...

... 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 on...

... interpretation 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...

.... Yet 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...

... 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...

...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 was...

... 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 and to the modern treatment by ValCry. She has further limited herself in dealing only with works involving a...

... 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...

... 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 The...

...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 in...

...Annemarie M. Sauerlander Curtis C. D. Vail 115 months before 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...

... 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 and to the modern...

... “Goethe and Werther” is an excellent essay, full of critical insights; Max 0. Mauderli compares poems by Goethe and Holder- lin, specifically “Mohamets Gesang” and the “Schicksalslied” ; Gregor Sebba has a long chapter on “Goethe on Human Creativeness,” using parts of Faust I1 and “Selige...

... Teil des Faust. By PAULFRIEDLAENDER. Weimar : Hermann Bohlaus Nachfolger, 1953. Pp. vi + 114. DM 6 As the title indicates somewhat obscurely, this small volume does not attempt to deal with the whole of Faust 11. Neither is it a complete discussion of the metrics and scenes of...

... 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...

... Italian version of Goethe’s work. It deserves a brief review for two reasons. First, it an- nounces the publication, when conditions permit, of a critical study of the Faust text with new readings and interpretations (to accompany the translation). And second, it has a certain interest because...

... for his study of the Faust legend in the Myth of the Magus, published in 1947. In his preface the author draws a contrast between the two works. The new book, he says, is much narrower in scope than the earlier one. It deals with “only a limited number of printed texts localized almost...