Framing Faust: Twentieth-Century Cultural Struggles

by Inez Hedges

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In this interdisciplinary cultural history that encompasses film, literature, music, and drama, Inez Hedges follows the thread of the Faustian rebel in the major intellectual currents of the last hundred years. She presents Faust and his counterpart Mephistopheles as antagonistic-- yet complementary-- figures whose productive conflict was integral to such phenomena as the birth of narrative cinema, the rise of modernist avant-gardes before World War...

Format:Hardcover

Language:English

ISBN:080932671X

ISBN13:9780809326716

Release Date:January 2006

Publisher:Southern Illinois University Press

Length:262 Pages

Weight:1.15 lbs.

Dimensions:0.8" x 6.0" x 9.0"

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Arts, Music & Photography Literary Criticism Literary Criticism & Collections Performing Arts Social Science Social Sciences

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