The «Fausts» of Gérard de Nerval
intertextuality, translation, adaptation
$18.38
- Paperback
278 pages
- Release Date
31 August 2018
Summary
Gérard de Nerval’s French translations of Goethe’s Faust are key works in Franco–German cultural relations, but they have often been mythologized. This book presents a nuanced view of works that continue to be the principal conveyors in France of arguably the foremost work of German literature. Less well known than his translations, Nerval’s own Faustian dramas – the Faust fragment (c. 1827), Nicolas Flamel (1831), and L’Imagier de Harlem (1851) – have received little scholarly attention a…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781788741835 |
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| ISBN-10: | 1788741838 |
| Series: | European Connections |
| Author: | Stephen Butler |
| Publisher: | Peter Lang International Academic Publishers |
| Imprint: | Peter Lang International Academic Publishers |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 278 |
| Release Date: | 31 August 2018 |
| Weight: | 407g |
| Dimensions: | 225mm x 150mm |
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About The Author
Stephen Butler
Stephen Butler holds a PhD in German Studies from the University of Manchester. He specializes in comparative literature, in particular Franco–German cultural relations in the nineteenth century, and also has an interest in the translation of English literature into French. He is currently working on a study of Amédée Pichot’s French translation of Byron’s Manfred.
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