World Literature Module 5.8

Faust

Study Guide: World Literature (Excellence in Literature, English 5)

Focus Text: Faust by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Honors Text: 

The Screwtape Letters by C.S. Lewis (if you didn’t read it in English II) AND

The Picture of Dorian Grey by Oscar Wilde OR
Frankenstein by Mary Shelley OR
Doctor Faustus by Christopher Marlowe

 

EIL 5.8 Context Resources

These links represent only the online resources referenced in this module. Instructions, background information, offline resources, and assignments are all found in the Excellence in Literature study guide listed above.

Readings

http://www.audiotreasure.com/mp3/18_Job/

https://www.firstthings.com/article/2009/08/hast-thou-considered-my-servant-faust

https://jbqnew.jewishbible.org/assets/Uploads/2/jbq_2_4.pdf

https://media.christendom.edu/1996/05/reading-goethes-faust-from-a-catholic-perspective/

https://www.britannica.com/topic/Faustian-bargain

https://www.britannica.com/event/Sturm-und-Drang

http://web.archive.org/web/20110702041453/http://www.roebuckclasses.com/ideas/sturmunddrang.htm

https://www.excellence-in-literature.com/introduction-to-romanticism-from-lilia-melani/

https://medium.com/traveling-through-history/1774-1849-the-age-of-revolution-a057d4546206

https://brians.wsu.edu/2016/10/12/goethes-faust/

https://web.archive.org/web/20190911065102/http://faculty.southwest.tn.edu/llipinski/ENGL2320T201/content/lesson18_handout.htm

http://gutenberg.net.au/ebooks06/0602901.txt

The Author’s Life

Invitation to the Classics ed. By Cowan and Guinness: Selections assigned in study guide.

https://www.excellence-in-literature.com/goethe-biography

http://www.theatrehistory.com/german/goethe003.html

http://www.theatrehistory.com/german/goethe008.html

Poetry

https://www.poetryintranslation.com/PITBR/German/Goethepoems.php

https://warwick.ac.uk/fac/arts/modernlanguages/about/german-studies/goethe

https://r.schillerinstitute.org/transl/schiller_poem/ode_to_joy.pdf

https://archive.schillerinstitute.com/fidelio_archive/1993/fidv02n01-1993Sp/fidv02n01-1993Sp_065-an_early_setting_of_the_ode_to_j.pdf

https://www.newworldencyclopedia.org/entry/Friedrich_Schiller

https://www.bartleby.com/18/6/

Audio

http://inogolo.com/pronunciation/Goethe

http://librivox.org/faust-part-1-by-johann-wolfgang-von-goethe/

https://www.excellence-in-literature.com/goethes-faust-read-aloud-video-excerpt

Music

https://www.excellence-in-literature.com/liszts-faust-symphony

http://www.musicwithease.com/gounod-faust.html

https://www.excellence-in-literature.com/richard-wagner-faust-overture

http://www.musicwithease.com/wagner-eine-faust-overture.html

https://www.excellence-in-literature.com/damnation-of-faust-berlioz

https://www.excellence-in-literature.com/schumann-faust-overture-music

https://www.excellence-in-literature.com/faust-opera-performance-video-excerpt

Video

https://www.excellence-in-literature.com/faust-silent-movie-1926

Visual Arts

https://www.caspardavidfriedrich.org

http://www.antiquariat-loidl.de/k40/abb/b53408.htm

http://www.vam.ac.uk/content/articles/o/the-shipwreck-of-don-juan/

Selections from The Annotated Mona Lisa by Carol Strickland

https://www.excellence-in-literature.com/faust-illustrations

http://www.essential-architecture.com/STYLE/STY-E05.htm

Historic Context

http://loki.stockton.edu/~fergusoc/romantic/romantic.htm

http://www.thecaveonline.com/APEH/napoleon.html

Enlightenment notes

https://www.neh.gov/humanities/2013/novemberdecember/feature/mapping-the-republic-letters

https://www.catholicculture.org/culture/library/view.cfm?recnum=7805

Places to Go

https://frankfurter-goethe-haus.de/en/

Fun Trivia Fact

See study guide.

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Index of World Literature context link pages

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World Literature Texts (recommended editions)

World Lit study guide, and links to focus and honors texts (opens in a new tab at the author’s Everyday Education site)