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/
http://www.catholiceducation.org/en/culture/literature/reading-goethes-faust-from-a-catholic-perspective.html (Classical Christian perspective)
http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/Faustian+bargain
EIL glossary
An Age of Revolutions: http://www.wwnorton.com/college/english/nawol3/section/volE/overview.aspx
http://coursesite.uhcl.edu/HSH/Whitec/terms/R/Romanticism.htm
Faust notes
http://www.cummingsstudyguides.net/Faust.html#Author
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://excellence-in-literature.com/goethe-biography
http://www.theatrehistory.com/german/goethe003.html
http://www.theatrehistory.com/german/goethe008.html
Poetry
http://www.poetryintranslation.com/PITBR/German/Goethepoems.htm
http://www2.warwick.ac.uk/fac/arts/german/goethe/
http://www.schillerinstitute.org/fid_91-96/931_Schiller_Ode.html
Audio
http://inogolo.com/pronunciation/Goethe
http://librivox.org/faust-part-1-by-johann-wolfgang-von-goethe/
https://excellence-in-literature.com/goethes-faust-read-aloud-video-excerpt
Music
https://excellence-in-literature.com/liszts-faust-symphony
http://www.musicwithease.com/gounod-faust.html
https://excellence-in-literature.com/richard-wagner-faust-overture
http://www.musicwithease.com/wagner-eine-faust-overture.html
https://excellence-in-literature.com/berlioz-music-for-faust-conducted-by-herbert-von-karajan
https://excellence-in-literature.com/schumann-faust-overture-music
https://excellence-in-literature.com/faust-opera-performance-video-excerpt
Video
https://excellence-in-literature.com/faust-silent-movie-1926
Visual Arts
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
http://nabilkanso.com/faust.html
https://excellence-in-literature.com/faust-illustrations
http://www.shepherdgallery.com/view_image.html?image_no=49
http://www.essential-architecture.com/STYLE/STY-E05.htm
Historic Context
http://www.stockton.edu/~fergusoc/romantic/romantic.htm
http://www.thecaveonline.com/APEH/napoleon.html
http://www.christianchronicler.com/history1/enlightenment.html
Places to Go
http://www.goethehaus-frankfurt.de/goethe-house
Fun Trivia Fact
See study guide.
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)