This book is an interdisciplinary collection of essays examining Goetheâs Faust and its derivatives in European, North American, and South American cultural contexts. It takes both a canonic and archival approach to Faust in studies of adaptations, performances, appropriations, sources, and the translation of the drama contextualized within cultural environments ranging from Gnosticism to artificial intelligence. Lorna Fitzsimmonsâ introduction sets this scholarship within a critical framework that draws together work on intertextuality and memory. Alan Corkhill looks at the ways in which the authority of the word is critiqued in Faust and Marloweâs Dr. Faustus.Robert E. Norton revisits the question of Herder as Faust and the early twentieth-century context in which the claim resonated. J. M. van der Laan explores the symbolic possibilities of the mysterious Eternal-Feminine. Frederick Burwick examines Coleridgeâs critique of Goetheâs Faust and his own plans for a Faustian tale on Michael Scott. Andrew Bush demonstrates how Estanislao del Campoâs poem âFaustoâ retells Gounodâs opera in the sociolect of Argentine gauchos. David G. John examines complete productions of Goetheâs Faust by Peter Stein and the Goetheanum. Jörg Esleben surveys contemporary Canadian interplay with Goetheâs Faust. Susanne Ledanff discusses the significance of Goetheâs Faust for Werner Fritschâs avant-garde âTheater of the Now.â Bruce J. MacLennan examines Faust from the perspective of a researcher in several Faustian technologies: artificial intelligence, autonomous robotics, artificial life, and artificial morphogenesis.
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