Faust: sources, works, criticism - Bates, Paul A., 1920- (New York, Harcourt, Brace & World, 1969)
Introduction -- 1. Sources -- The historical Faustus -- The Faustbuch / Johann Spies -- 2. Works -- The tragical history of the life and death of Doctor Faustus / Christopher Marlowe -- Faust (Part 1 and Act 5 of Part 2) / Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, trans. by Louis MacNeice -- Doctor Faustus (Chapter 25) / Thomas Mann, trans. by H.T. Lowe-Porter -- "The progress of Faust" / Karl Shapiro -- 3. Criticism -- "The comic synthesis in Doctor Faustus" / Robert Ornstein -- "Doctor Faustus" / Wolfgang Clemen -- "'The form of Faustus' fortunes good or bad'" / C.L. Barber -- "Goethe and Faust" / Victor Lange -- "Faust's damnation : the morality of knowledge" / Erich Heller -- "The world without transcendence" / Hans Egon Holthusen -- "'Thomas Mann's Doctor Faustus : 'Terminal work' of an art form and an era" / Erich Kahler -- From "Aspects of contradictions : on recent criticisms of Thomas Mann" / Bernhard Blume -- Topics for writing and research -- Suggestions for further reading.
Includes bibliographical references.
Keywords: Faust, -- d. ca. 1540 -- In literature