Prometheus And Faust
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Author | : Timothy R. Wutrich |
Publisher | : Praeger |
Total Pages | : 200 |
Release | : 1995-08-30 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
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The comparison made between Prometheus and Faust occurs so frequently in modern scholarship as to seem commonplace. However, while each figure has been investigated separately, no recent full-length study has brought the two characters together and examined the association. The present volume explores the Prometheus myth from its preliterary origins through treatments in Greek by Hesiod, Aeschylus, Plato, and Lucian, as well as in Latin literature and Roman theatricals. The investigation continues into hitherto unexplored connections with the Greek figure and the magus and occult scientist types of late antiquity, the Middle Ages, and Renaissance. The Prometheus and Faust traditions met in literature and art soon after the emergence of the historical Faustus. The traditions continued to exist independently through the 16th and 17th centuries, until Goethe began to write a play about each character. Ultimately Goethe abandoned Prometheus; however, Faust absorbed much of the Promethean persona.
Author | : Tony Harrison |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 86 |
Release | : 1998 |
Genre | : Nature |
ISBN | : 9780571197538 |
Harrison uses the Greek myth of Prometheus (who stole fire from the gods to give to man) as his starting point in this verse play, to address man's misuse and abuse of the environment.
Author | : Caroline Corbeau-Parsons |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 355 |
Release | : 2017-12-02 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 1351192132 |
"On Zeus' order, Prometheus was chained to Mount Caucasus where, every day, he was to endure his liver being devoured by a bird of prey - his punishment for bringing fire to mankind. Through the impulse of Goethe, his fortune went through radical changes: the Titan, originally perceived as a trickster, was established both as a creator and a rebel freed from guilt, and he became a mask for the Romantic artist. This cross-disciplinary study, encompassing literature, the history of art, and music, examines the constitution of the Prometheus myth and the revolution it underwent in 19th-century Europe. It leads to the Symbolist period - which witnessed the coronation of the Titan as a prism for the total work of art - and aims to re-establish the importance of Prometheus amongst other major Symbolist figures such as Orpheus."
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.
Author | : Roger Shattuck |
Publisher | : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt |
Total Pages | : 388 |
Release | : 1997 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780156005517 |
A riveting account of the ways in which man's darkest impulses conflict with common sense. From the lessons learned in "Paradise Lost" and the events which transpired in the tales of "Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde" and "Frankenstein" to unlocking the secrets of the atom, Shattuck's brilliant synthesis of history and literature is utterly relevant to our times and addictively readable.
Author | : Theodore Ziolkowski |
Publisher | : Princeton University Press |
Total Pages | : 239 |
Release | : 2021-01-12 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 0691223947 |
Adam, Prometheus, and Faust--their stories were central to the formation of Western consciousness and continue to be timely cautionary tales in an age driven by information and technology. Here Theodore Ziolkowski explores how each myth represents a response on the part of ancient Hebrew, ancient Greek, and sixteenth-century Christian culture to the problem of knowledge, particularly humankind's powerful, perennial, and sometimes unethical desire for it. This book exposes for the first time the similarities underlying these myths as well as their origins in earlier trickster legends, and considers when and why they emerged in their respective societies. It then examines the variations through which the themes have been adapted by modern writers to express their own awareness of the sin of knowledge. Each myth is shown to capture the anxiety of a society when faced with new knowledge that challenges traditional values. Ziolkowski's examples of recent appropriations of the myths are especially provocative. From Voltaire to the present, the Fall of Adam has provided an image for the emergence from childhood innocence into the consciousness of maturity. Prometheus, as the challenger of authority and the initiator of technological evil, yielded an ambivalent model for the socialist imagination of the German Democratic Republic. And finally, an America unsettled by its responsibility for the atomic bomb, and worrying that in its postwar prosperity it had betrayed its values, recognized in Faust the disturbing image of its soul.
Author | : John Owen |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 416 |
Release | : 1896 |
Genre | : Bible |
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Author | : Peter Rogers |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 184 |
Release | : 2018-09-03 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : 9781720053590 |
Greens and beans move the bulge from your belly to your jeans. Books shows how to lose weight fast and be healthy. Explains how people get fat and become diabetic. Understanding the causes of obesity helps you to avoid them. Eat starches for energy and greens for nutrients. Vegetarian diet in body weight optimization and health is the scientific equivalent of the Prometheus gift of fire. Book also covers the psychology of healthy eating and healthy living with ideas from Goethe, the author of Faust as well as the inspiring painting, "Faust on Easter morning" by Krafft. Kierkegaard's philosophy shows that we must choose. It's "Either:Or." Physiology refers to medical descriptions of how meat and saturated fat leads to increased risk of appendicitis, diverticulitis, hemorrhoids, varicocele, impotence, gallstones, degenerative disc disease of the spine, coronary artery disease, stroke, hypertension and fatty liver. Physiology of exercise and cognitive function are also discussed including ways to prevent dementia. When a person understands what's is happening with their health, they are more able to optimize it. Explains how to help prevent impotence. Philosophy of cognitive function also described. Diet, exercise and philosophy go together to optimize cognitive function. Explains how to optimize blood flow. All body parts heal better with improved blood flow and surprisingly few physicians are knowledgeable about blood flow. They seldom know about viscosity which is an easy concept to learn and very useful.
Author | : |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 510 |
Release | : 1896 |
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Author | : Rebecca Futo Kennedy |
Publisher | : BRILL |
Total Pages | : 654 |
Release | : 2017-09-25 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 9004348824 |
Brill’s Companion to the Reception of Aeschylus explores the various ways Aeschylus’ tragedies have been discussed, parodied, translated, revisioned, adapted, and integrated into other works over the course of the last 2500 years. Immensely popular while alive, Aeschylus’ reception begins in his own lifetime. And, while he has not been the most reproduced of the three Attic tragedians on the stage since then, his receptions have transcended genre and crossed to nearly every continent. While still engaging with Aeschylus’ theatrical reception, the volume also explores Aeschylus off the stage--in radio, the classroom, television, political theory, philosophy, science fiction and beyond.