Autumn Courses Offered in English: Faust and the Devil in Literature, Film, and Music

Submitted by Stephanie N. Welch on

This fall, Germanics is once again offering popular courses in English including Faust and the Devil in Literature, Film, and Music; GERMAN 390A (offered with COMP LIT 320).

This course investigates how pacts with the devil appear in our culture and the special connections of this tradition with music. We will look in detail at Marlowe's tragedy Dr. Faustus at Goethe's Faust, Parts I and IIĀ  (1808 and 1832), at some Faust operas and films of the 19th and 20th centuries, and Bulgakov's comic novel The Master and Margarita. We will explore how the legend of the pact with the devil came to represent the West's view of itself and of the dangers inherent in our advancing scientific knowledge. Several short exercises and a take-home final.

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