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Walter Arndt’s translation of Faust reproduces the sense of the German original and Goethe’s enormously varied metrics and rhyme schemes.BooknewsThis edition of Goethe's , translated by Walter Arndt (emeritus, humanities, Dartmouth College), contains over 100 pages of interpretive notes, as well as excerpts from both contemporary and modern criticism and analysis of the piece. Hamlin (German and comparative literature, Yale U.) offers extensive introductory and supporting material which will allow readers to gain a deeper understanding of Goethe's masterpiece. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)
PrefaceixThe Text of Faust. A Tragedy1The Tragedy's First Part12Walpurgis Night110Walpurgis Night's Dream or the Golden Wedding of Oberon and Titania. Intermezzo120The Tragedy's Second Part in Five Acts135Act I135Act II187Classical Walpurgis Night199Act III [Helena. Classical-Romantic Phantasmagoria]241Act IV287Act V313Interpretive Notes345Contexts493Selected Illustrations for Faust494The Composition of Faust505Goethe on Faust514From Goethe's Autobiography514From Italian Journey515Faust Plan of 1800515From Goethe's Correspondence with Schiller, 1794-1801516Outline of the Contents for Part Two521Second Sketch for the Announcement of the Helena523From Goethe's Letters and His Conversations with Eckermann530Comments by Contemporaries550[Response to the Newly Published Fragment of Faust]550[First Impression of Faust]551[Review of the Fragment of 1790]552[On Hamlet and Faust as Philosophical Tragedies]553[On Faust as Tragicomedy]555[Paraphrase of Faust, from The Phenomenology of Mind]557"Faustus"558[First Notice of Faust in English]560[Faust]563"Goethe"565[General Remarks on Goethe]567Modern Criticism571[Survey of the Faust Theme]573Faust as Doctor of Theology586Interrupted Tragedy as a Structural Principal in Faust598[Goethe's Faust as Modern Epic]611[Faust and Discourse Networks]634The Presence of the Sign in Goethe's Faust650The Economics of Translation in Goethe's Faust668[The Spirit of Water: Faust, Part Two, Act II]688[The Ethics of Faust's Last Actions]704[Faust as Developer]715What the Lovers in the Old Songs Thought728Johann Wolfgang von Goethe: A Chronology731Selected Bibliography735
