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Lives of Faust: The Faust Theme in Literature and Music. A ...

Lives of Faust: The Faust Theme in Literature and Music. A ...

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This book is an interdisciplinary reader on the Faust theme in literature and music from the Reformation to the present. Essays by Faust scholars set the texts in context.
Faust is Dead

Faust is Dead

Mark Ravenhill

Mark Ravenhill's Faust (Faust is Dead) is a dark and often brutally funny journey through a world of virtual reality The world's most famous philosopher arrives in Los Angeles and is greeted as a star.
Faust: My Soul be Damned for the World

Faust: My Soul be Damned for the World

E. A. Bucchianeri

A detailed study of the first Faust books and the popular Faustian folk tales.
International Faust Studies: Adaptation, Reception, Translation

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.
Faust Adaptations from Marlowe to Aboudoma and Markland

Faust Adaptations from Marlowe to Aboudoma and Markland

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This collection presents innovative approaches to understanding the mediated, translated, and adapted figure of Faust through both culturally specific inquiry and timeless questions.
Joan of Arc: The Image of Female Heroism

Joan of Arc: The Image of Female Heroism

Marina Warner

Examines the life of Joan of Arc and explores the meaning of Joan both to her contemporaries and succeeding generations--Joan as hero, prophet, heretic, androgyne, harlot, and saint
Goethe's Faust and Cultural Memory: Comparatist Interfaces

Goethe's Faust and Cultural Memory: Comparatist Interfaces

Lorna Fitzsimmons

This book is an interdisciplinary collection of essays examining Goethe’s Faust and its derivatives in European, North American, and South American cultural contexts.
Faust's Anesthesiology Review: Expert Consult

Faust's Anesthesiology Review: Expert Consult

Michael J. Murray

Quickly expand your knowledge base and master your residency with Faust's Anesthesiology Review, the world’s best-selling review book in anesthesiology.
Andrew Marvell's Liminal Lyrics: The Space Between

Andrew Marvell's Liminal Lyrics: The Space Between

Joan Faust

2. Harold E. Toliver, “Marvell's Songs and Pictorial Exhibits,” in Tercentenary Es- says in Honor of Andrew Marvell, ed. Kenneth Friedenreich (Hamden, CT: Archon, 1977),113–14. 3. See Nigel Smith, Andrew Marvell: The Chameleon ( New ...
Christopher Marlowe in Context

Christopher Marlowe in Context

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Mephistopheles”: Faust and Byron', in International Faust Studies: Adaptation, Reception, Translation, ed. Lorna Fitzsimmons (London: Continuum, 2008), 107– 23 (107). 11 Christopher Marlowe, Hero and Leander,in The Collected Poems of  ...
Faust-Foust Family in Germany & America

Faust-Foust Family in Germany & America

Howard M. Faust

B1B1B1D3 CARL FOUST - b. 5/1889. B1B1B1D4 CLIFFORD FOUST- b. 4/1892. B1B1B1D5 RALPH FOUST - b. 12/1894. B1B1B1E ALLESON FOUST - b. ca. 1858; d. 8/11/1914; m. Lovie . Issue : B1B1B1EL CHRISTOPHER FOUST - b. 1886 ...
This Republic of Suffering

This Republic of Suffering

Drew Gilpin Faust

In This Republic of Suffering, Drew Gilpin Faust reveals the ways that death on such a scale changed not only individual lives but the life of the nation, describing how the survivors managed on a practical level and how a deeply religious ...
The German Classics: Masterpieces of German Literature

The German Classics: Masterpieces of German Literature

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Masterpieces of German Literature Kuno Francke. THE FAUST LEGEND FROM MARLOWE TO GOETHE BY Kano FRANCKE, Pn.D., LL.D., Lrrr.D. Professor of the History of German Culture, Harvard University HE Faust legend is a ...
James Henry Hammond and the Old South: A Design for Mastery

James Henry Hammond and the Old South: A Design for Mastery

Drew Gilpin Faust

A long-awaited biography, Drew Gilpin Faust's James Henry Hammond and the Old South reveals the South Carolina planter who was at once characteristic of his age and unique among men of his time.
Joan of Arc: The Image of Female Heroism

Joan of Arc: The Image of Female Heroism

Marina Warner

The night Joan spent with Catherine de La Rochelle in the winter of 1429, trying to discover if there were any truth in her, is one of the most interesting and extraordinary incidents in the whole of Joan's career. When Catherine said that her ...
Bennewitz, Goethe, 'Faust': German and Intercultural Stagings

Bennewitz, Goethe, 'Faust': German and Intercultural Stagings

David G. John

University of Toronto Press 2012 Toronto Buffalo London www.utppublishing. com Printed in Canada ISBN 978-1-4426-4333-8 German and European Studies John, David G. (David Gethin), 1947–Bennewitz, Goethe, Faust : German and ...
Visions of the Maid: Joan of Arc in American Film and Culture

Visions of the Maid: Joan of Arc in American Film and Culture

Robin Blaetz

In Visions of the Maid, Blaetz examines three pivotal films—Cecil B. DeMille's 1916 Joan the Woman, Victor Fleming's 1948 Joan of Arc, and Otto Preminger's 1957 Saint Joan—as well as addressing a broad array of popular culture ...
Joan Robinson

Joan Robinson

G. Harcourt

This section is based on Pervez Tahir's monograph, Making Sense of Joan Robinson on China, which he wrote when he was the 1990 Joan Robinson Memorial Lecturer at the Faculty of Economics and Politics, University of Cambridge.
Joan of Arc: The Early Debate

Joan of Arc: The Early Debate

Deborah A. Fraioli

(Does) an immense service to anyone interested in Joan of Arc... skillfully disentangles countless textual threads, all centered around one problem: the nature of Joan's mission as it was examined in the early theological debates.
Joan of Arc: Reality and Myth

Joan of Arc: Reality and Myth

Dirk Arend Berents

The appearance of Joan of Arc JAN VAN HERWAARDEN The available documents have enabled us to learn to know the true Joan of Arc as a real person: of flesh and blood, intent on a mission and authoritarian, purposeful and arrogant, ...
Myths of Modern Individualism: Faust, Don Quixote, Don Juan, ...

Myths of Modern Individualism: Faust, Don Quixote, Don Juan, ...

Ian Watt

In this volume, Ian Watt examines the myths of Faust, Don Quixote, Don Juan and Robinson Crusoe, as the distinctive products of modern society.
Fresh Verdicts on Joan of Arc

Fresh Verdicts on Joan of Arc

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I am indebted to three earlier discussions of the cinematic treatment of Joan of Arc: a special issue of Etudes cine'matographiques 18— 19 (1962) devoted to “ Jeanne d'Arc a l'e'cran”; Robin Blaetz, “Strategies of Containment: Joan of Arc in  ...
Shark Island

Shark Island

Joan Druett

Praise for Joan Druett and A Watery Grave "What a terrific idea New Zealand naval historian Joan Druett had for a mystery series."—Chicago Tribune "This impressive debut will appeal both to fans of historical mysteries and to Patrick O' ...
Just Keep Breathing. At 44, he died. She didn’t.:

Just Keep Breathing. At 44, he died. She didn’t.:

Joan Scott Curtis

She didn't. by Joan Scott Curtis © 2013 Joan Scott Curtis All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced or transmitted in any form or by any means, mechanical or electronic, including photocopying and recording, or by any ...
Joan of Arc: The Image of Female Heroism

Joan of Arc: The Image of Female Heroism

Marina Warner

clothing, see knight, Joan of Arc as: clothing; transvestism cult of [after her death] attempted suppression of, 4 centered on Domremy, 237 early promoters of, 181 growth of, 19th cent, 181 see also Joan of Arc: veneration of death of, see death:  ...
Business Week

Business Week

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A Watery Grave

A Watery Grave

Joan Druett

Joan Druett. A WATERY GRAVE JOAN DRUETT A WATERY GRAVE JOAN DRUETT INTI-L; g BUOKS. Front Cover.

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