"Northern Arts is a provocative exploration of Scandinavian literature and art. With intellectual power and deep emotional insights, writer and critic Arnold Weinstein guides us through the most startling works created by the writers and artists of Scandinavia over the past two …
Since the publication of Faust, a Tragedy in 1832, critics have lauded Goethe's masterwork with innumerable accolades. C. G. Jung, for example, refers to it as "the grandest work of alchemy." Faust, Part One, however, contains only ten lines dealing with alchemy, while alchemica…
Three operas—and really, the heroines of three operas—take center stage in this dissertation: Charles Gounod’s Faust (1859), Ambroise Thomas’s Hamlet (1868), and Jules Massenet’s Werther (1892). I examine the representation of women’s trauma and suffering in each of these works …
The Faust legend seen as a transmission of core Gnostic teachings disguised as a morality tale - Shows the 16th-century Faust text to be a coded, composite Gnostic creation myth - Identifies the many Hermetic, alchemical, and Tantric symbols found in Faust that signify worship o…
Príbeh o Faustovi predstavuje jeden z nejstarších a nejpodstatnejších evropských mýtu, jehož aktuálnost v soucasné dobe každým dnem narustá (což je dobrá zpráva pro mýtus, ale - s prihlédnutím k pointe faustovských príbehu - varovná pro nás). Vladimír Just, který o faustovském m…
