Goethe's Faust

Goethe's Faust
Author: Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Publisher:
Total Pages: 714
Release: 1912
Genre:
ISBN:

Agua Viva

Agua Viva
Author: Clarice Lispector
Publisher: U of Minnesota Press
Total Pages: 122
Release: 1989
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 9780816617821

Discusses life, time, beauty, experience, meaning, music, and art.

Music in Goethe's Faust

Music in Goethe's Faust
Author: Lorraine Byrne Bodley
Publisher: Boydell & Brewer
Total Pages: 358
Release: 2017
Genre: Foreign Language Study
ISBN: 1783272007

Goethe's Faust, a work which has attracted the attention of composers since the late eighteenth century and played a vital role in the evolution of vocal, operatic and instrumental repertoire in the nineteenth century, hashad a seminal impact in musical realms.

The Chronology of Water

The Chronology of Water
Author: Lidia Yuknavitch
Publisher: Hawthorne Books
Total Pages: 222
Release: 2011-04-01
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 0983304904

This is not your mother’s memoir. In The Chronology of Water, Lidia Yuknavitch, a lifelong swimmer and Olympic hopeful escapes her raging father and alcoholic and suicidal mother when she accepts a swimming scholarship which drug and alcohol addiction eventually cause her to lose. What follows is promiscuous sex with both men and women, some of them famous, and some of it S&M, and Lidia discovers the power of her sexuality to help her forget her pain. The forgetting doesn’t last, though, and it is her hard-earned career as a writer and a teacher, and the love of her husband and son, that ultimately create the life she needs to survive.

Short Stories in German

Short Stories in German
Author: Ernst Zillekens
Publisher: Penguin UK
Total Pages: 181
Release: 2003-09-25
Genre: Literary Collections
ISBN: 014196653X

This new volume of eight short stories offers students of German at all levels the opportunity to enjoy a wide range of contemporary literature in the original, with the aid of parallel translations. The majority of these stories have been written in the past decade, and reflect a rich diversity of styles and themes. Complete with notes, the stories make excellent reading in either language.

Byron, Shelley and Goethe's Faust

Byron, Shelley and Goethe's Faust
Author: Ben Hewitt
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 209
Release: 2017-07-05
Genre: Foreign Language Study
ISBN: 1351572830

The first part of Goethe's dramatic poem Faust (1808), one of the great works of German literature, grabbed the attention of Byron and Percy Shelley in the 1810s, engaging them in a shared fascination that was to exert an important influence over their writings. In this comparative study, Ben Hewitt explores the links between Faust and Byron's and Shelley's works, connecting Goethe and the two English Romantic poets in terms of their differing, intricately related experiments with epic. In so doing, Hewitt enters the three writers into a literary and philosophical dialogue concerning 'epic' and 'tragic' perspectives on human knowledge and potential - perspectives crucial to the very structure and significance of Goethe's masterpiece - and illuminates hitherto unacknowledged affinities between these key figures in Romantic literature, and between British and German Romanticisms.

The Tragical History of the Life and Death of Doctor Faustus

The Tragical History of the Life and Death of Doctor Faustus
Author: Christopher Marlowe
Publisher:
Total Pages: 108
Release: 2017-02-16
Genre:
ISBN: 9781543146431

The Tragical History of the Life and Death of Doctor Faustus, commonly referred to simply as Doctor Faustus, is an Elizabethan tragedy by Christopher Marlowe, based on German stories about the title character Faust, that was first performed sometime between 1588 and Marlowe's death in 1593. Two different versions of the play were published in the Jacobean era, several years later.The powerful effect of early productions of the play is indicated by the legends that quickly accrued around them-that actual devils once appeared on the stage during a performance, "to the great amazement of both the actors and spectators", a sight that was said to have driven some spectators mad.

Faust

Faust
Author: Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Publisher: Penguin
Total Pages: 162
Release: 1949
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 9780140440126

A brief analysis of the development, style, and protagonists of Faust is included with Goethe's classic tale about a troubled man who sells his soul to the devil.