...Hans Albert Von Maier Copyright © 1948 by Duke University Press 1948 DIE STELLUNG DES “DOKTOR FAUSTUS” IM GESAMTWERKE THOMAS MANNS Yon HANSALBERT MAIER Grauen umgibt uns, Grauen und Hoffnungslosigkeit, wenn wir ~chfieberhafter...

...Paul H. Kocher NASHE’S AUTHORSHIP OF THE PROSE SCENES IN FAUSTUS” By PAULH. KOCHER The greater number of students of Fazistus have long doubted that Marlowe wrote all of the prose passages of the play. Cut there has been...

...Sidney R. Homan, Jr. Copyright © 1965 by Duke University Press 1965 DOCTOR FAUSTUS, DEKKERS OLD FORTUNATUS, AND THE MORALITY PLAYS By SIDNEYR. HOMAN,JR. Lately there has been considerable interest in the ties between...

...Leonard H. Frey Copyright © 1963 by Duke University Press 1963 ANTITHETICAL BALANCE IN THE OPENING AND CLOSE OF DOCTOR FAUSTUS By LEONARDH. FREY The opening and closing scenes of Doctor Faustus are commonly agreed to be among the great...

...Eva Schiffer Gunilla Bergsten. Stockholm: Svensja Bokförlaget, 1963. Pp. 308. Copyright © 1963 by Duke University Press 1963 Eva Schifer 415 momas Mums Doktor Faustus: Untersuckungen zu den Quellen und zur...

...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...

..., history proves to be a tragic experience,” because “the greater his efforts to make it fit his own ‘best wisedome’, the more de- structive and foolish he appears” (p. 141). Her discussion of Faustus’ learned 75 76...

..., the “representative victim” of the “catastrophe of the human soul” (p. 273). As the “tragic parody of the first Frankfurt Faustbook of 1587” (p. 274), revoking Goethe’s Faust, Doctor Faustus demonstrates Thomas Mann’s “despairing return to Scho- penhauer’s pessimism” (p. 30). With this fatal and final work...

..., it should be said, when passionate expression is assimilated, as in the famous speeches “What is beauty, saith my sufferings, then?” and “The thirst of reign and sweetness of a crown.” And in Dr. Faustus, where character exists more fully on the level of plot, Marlowe’s poetic utterance is more...

.... This inclucles almost all of the novels (with one notable exception), particularly Leverkiihn’s encounter with Esmeralda. I wonder whether the great emphasis on this proud, clesper- ate, and iinrepeatable sexual and spiritual union accounts for Reed’s taking tlie “coda”-the work(s) after Doctor Faustus...

... of transposing impressions of music into words. The result is unimpres- sive. 514 KEVIEWS Scher makes one attempt to go beyond this descriptive mode into actual interpretation. After treating a passage of Thomas Mann’s Doktor Faustus...

.... 168. M. Sagave’s study is an unusually interesting and valuable contribution. Con- fining himself to Buddenbrooks, Der Zauberberg, and Doktor Faustus, he attempts, with general success, to depict both the political and economic reality underlying the three novels and the ideological...

... Joyce seem to spring to our mind, though much of this may be found in the works of Jean Paul or Novalis. Further in this essay, Hood said: “The charms of Di Vernon faded with me into a vision of Dr. Faustus.” We shall see that there can be little doubt that Hood refers to Goethe’s Faust...

... interpretation. After treating a passage of Thomas Mann’s Doktor Faustus in his usual manner, Scher tries to show that Leverkuhn-Mlann’s description of the prelude to Act 3 of Wagner’s Meistersinger means more than Lever- kuhn’s mockery of Wagner’s style. He insists that Adrian’s whole career...

... the primitive anthropomorphism of hell as a way of understanding Doctor Faustus. He questions the manner in which an acquaintance with Calvinist providentialism will throw light on Richard 111 and Macbeth. In revealing a second interest, that is, what a popular audience in a public theater at the time...

... the awe-inspiring lines which Marlowe gave to hlephistophilis in response to similar questions of Doctor Faustus. Faust. Where are you damn’d? Meph. In hell. Fnust. How comes it then that thou art out of hell? Meph. Why this is hell, nor am I...

... writers, and was liberated from religion during the time of Lessing. Miss Butler deals extensively and efficiently with Goethe’s Fuwt, quite properly points up the importance of Lenau and Heine in Faustian literature, and devotes a chapter to Thomas Mann’s Doktor Faustus (which she calls...

... the time of Lessing. Miss Butler deals extensively and efficiently with Goethe’s Fuwt, quite properly points up the importance of Lenau and Heine in Faustian literature, and devotes a chapter to Thomas Mann’s Doktor Faustus (which she calls “The First Faust Reborn, 1947 I was delighted...

... 1’Uni- versitC de Strasbourg, SociCtC d’Edition, Les Belles Lettres, fascicule 124, 1954. Pp. 168. M. Sagave’s study is an unusually interesting and valuable contribution. Con- fining himself to Buddenbrooks, Der Zauberberg, and Doktor Faustus, he attempts, with general success...

... irresist- ible and even indispensable to Marlowe’s own poetic projects, both on and off the stage. In his plays he used the Ovidian elegy to refashion the stories and desires of historically prominent figures, such as Dido, Edward II, and Doctor Faustus, each of whom famously chooses to die rather...