Prometheus and Faust: The Promethean Revolt in Drama from Classical Antiquity to Goethe - Couverture rigide

Wutrich, Timothy R.

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 0313292442 ISBN 13 : 9780313292446

Editeur : Praeger Publishers Inc, 1995

Synopsis

The comparison made between Prometheus and Faust occurs so frequently in modern scholarship as to seem commonplace. However, while each figure has been investigated separately, no recent full-length study has brought the two characters together and examined the association. The present volume explores the Prometheus myth from its preliterary origins through treatments in Greek by Hesiod, Aeschylus, Plato, and Lucian, as well as in Latin literature and Roman theatricals. The investigation continues into hitherto unexplored connections with the Greek figure and the magus and occult scientist types of late antiquity, the Middle Ages, and Renaissance. The Prometheus and Faust traditions met in literature and art soon after the emergence of the historical Faustus. The traditions continued to exist independently through the 16th and 17th centuries, until Goethe began to write a play about each character. Ultimately Goethe abandoned Prometheus; however, Faust absorbed much of the Promethean persona.

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À propos de l?auteur

TIMOTHY RICHARD WUTRICH is Associate Professor of Comparative Arts at Ohio University in Athens, Ohio.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Praeger Publishers Inc
• Date d'édition: 1995
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0313292442
• ISBN 13: 9780313292446
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 192
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
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