Companion to Goethe's Faust

Paul Bishop is Professor of German and Head of Department of German at the University of Glasgow. Paul Bishop is Professor of German and Head of Department of German at the University of Glasgow.

• Introduction: Reading Faust Today - Paul BishopLiterary Techniques and Aesthetic Texture in Faust - Ritchie RobertsonThe Character and Characterization of Faust - Martin SwalesThe Guilty Hero, or the Tragic Salvation of Faust - Alberto DestroThe Character and Qualities of Mephistopheles - Osman DurraniFigurations of the Feminine in Goethe's Faust - Ellis Dye - DECEASED IN 2017The Problem of the Mothers - John R. WilliamsThe Classical and the Medieval in Faust II - Anthony PhelanProgress and Restorative Utopia in Faust II and Wilhelm Meisters Wanderjahre - Franziska Schößler"Was die Welt im Innersten zusammenhält": Scientific Themes in Goethe's Faust - Peter SmithGoethe's Faust and the Philosophers - Cyrus HamlinThe Diachronic Solidity of Goethe's Faust - R.H. StephensonTranslating Faust: A Personal Statement - F.D. LukeFaust: The Play in Production - Robert David MacDonald

Each essay presents an interesting aspect of Faust research, and the volume as a whole can be used as a very informative reference work.