GETR 3600 - Faust

Effective Date 01/01/2013
Taking Goethe’s Faust as its point of departure, this course traces the emergence and transformations of the Faust legend over the last 400 hundred years. We explore precursors of Goethe’s Faust in the form of the English Faust Book, Christopher Marlowe’s Doctor Faustus, and possibly other popular re-workings of the text. We will Goethe’s Faust in its entirety, and then proceed to Bulgakov’s response to Stalinism in The Master and Margharta and

Credits: 3