International Faust Studies: Adaptation, Reception, Translation

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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.

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"An outstanding contribution to our understanding of how and why the myth of Faustus has evolved over many centuries and adapted itself to the temper of successive cultures." - Professor Osman Durrani, School of European Culture and Languages, University of Kent at Canterbury -- Professor Osman Durrani, School of European Culture and Languages, University of Kent at Canterbury
Reviewed in The Journal of Theatre Research International, Vol 35/2 - 2010 The collection ... manages to make ... a very strong contribution to a field that has already been very much studied.'
In tracing Faust's epic journey in discourses, music and on stage Lorna Fitzsimmons prepared a magnificent volume offering informative, rich and well-researched essays... the essays are meticulously researched and admirably edited. -- The European Legacy, Vol. 15, No. 7
Goethes Faust, its two parts published almost a quarter of a century apart, is comparable only to Shakespeares dramas in its capacity to speak anew to every age and culture. This is confirmed by the book under review, whose fifteen chapters, each by a different hand, cover a very wide area geographically, culturally, linguistically, temporally, and in terms of performance practice. The list of contributors is impressive: all can claim expertise, and many distinction in their field . . . this is a worthwhile addition to Faust literature. -- Judith Purver, University of Manchester * BARS Bulletin *

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