Title: The Faust legend in music and literature /
Authors: Grim, William E.
Date: 1988
Publisher: Edwin Mellen Press,
Physical description: 2 v. : music ; 24 cm.
Language: English
LC classification: M
Contents: v. 2. Apologia pro Gounod's Faust -- Gounod's Faust as a literary metaphor -- Kerouac's doctor sax and the enigma of the American experience -- Das Ewig-Weibliche Zeiht uns Zurück: Berg's Lulu as anti-Faust -- The Faustian connection in gravity's rainbow -- The fiery angel(s) of Valerii Bryusov and Sergei Prokofiev -- Ambivalence, Berlioz, and La damnation de Faust -- Mephistopheles vs. the American constitution: the devil and Daniel Webster -- The symphonic and choral Fausts of Schumann, Mendelssohn, Liszt, Wagner, Mahler, Boulanger, and Brian -- The Faust legend in film.
Subject headings (LCSH): Faust, -approximately 1540--In literature.; Faust, -approximately 1540--Legends--History and criticism.; Faust, -approximately 1540--Songs and music--History and criticism.; Legends.; Music and literature.