Approaches to Teaching Goethe's Faust
Editor(s): Douglas J. McMillan
Pages: xiii & 170 pp.
Published: 1987
ISBN: 9780873525022 (paperback)
ISBN: 9780873525015 (hardcover)
"An eminentaly usable volume that should be read by anyone who teaches Goethe in German or in English translation. Highly recommended."
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"To know Goethe's Faust is to know the humanities," writes the editor of this book. But Faust may be difficult to present to undergraduates, not only because of the problems of translation, if the play is taught in English, but also because of the special uses of language, mythology, history, and science in Goethe's sprawling cosmo-drama. This volume provides help and encouragement to the teacher of Faust; it contains suggestions by teachers of German literature, Romance literatures, English and American literatures, comparative literature, history, and psychology.
Like other volumes in the MLA's Approaches to Teaching World Literature series, it is divided into two parts. The first, "Materials," discusses the editions and translations available, aids to teaching, background works, and critical studies. In the second part, "Approaches," twenty-four essays discuss topics ranging from the genre of Faust to the problem of Gretchen's docility to poetic devices to the devil in literature. The essays are marked by a tension between those that advocate a strictly literary approach to Goethe's work and those that take interdisciplinary and interart approaches.
Table of Contents
Approaches to Teaching Goethe's Faust
PART 1: MATERIALS
Douglas J. McMillan
- Editions and Translations
- German Editions
- Translations: Dual-Language Editions, English Translations, Anthology
- Required and Recommended Student Readings
- Introduction
- General Introductions to Goethe
- Background Studies
- Critical Works
- Influence Studies
Aids to Teaching
- The Instructor's Library
- Introduction
- Reference Works
- Background Studies
- Critical Studies
PART 2: APPROACHES
Teaching Goethe's Faust: Introductory Remarks
Cyrus Hamlin
Approaches to Goethe and Faust: General Discussions and Background
The Genre of Faust
Jane K. Brown
Goethe and Classicism
Kathleen Harris
Goethe and Romanticism
Neil M. Flax
The Problem of Gretchen
Lilian R. Furst
Goethe and Science
A. G. Steer
Aesthetic Qualities
Stuart Atkins
The Structure of Faust
Christoph E. Schweitzer
Approaches to Teaching Faust: Units and Courses
Two Roads to Faust
Henry Hatfield
Goethe's Faust: Poetic Devices
Victor Lange
In Search of Goethe's Faust from Without: A Dramatic Approach
Hart Wegner
Teaching Structural Unity in Goethe's Faust through Language Patterns
Garold N. Davis
The Individual, Nature, and Faust
Cam Walker
The Romantic Revolution
Margot A. Haberhern
"Linger a While . . .": Faust in a World Literature Class
Patricia Marks
Faust in a Great Books Course
George Newtown
Teaching Faust with Art: The Delacroix Lithographs
Richard Erich Schade
Approaches to Teaching Faust and the Faust Legend: Units and Courses
Faust and Freshman Humanities
Larry K. Uffelman
The Many Lives of Dr. Faust: An Interdisciplinary Television Course
Roslyn Abt Schindler
The Faustian Theme in European Literature, Painting, and Music
Edith Potter
Faust in Literature and Music
Carsten E. Seecamp
Taming the Dragon: Or, How to Render Faust Congenial to Undergraduates
Frank S. Lambasa
Ivan Turgenev's "Faust": A Realist's Transformation of the Gretchen Tragedy
Werner Hoffmeister
The Devil in Faust and in World Literature
Laurence M. Porter
Works Cited
Index
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