ACLA 2006 Annual Meeting: The Human and Its Others

This seminar invites papers on the Faustian trope throughout world literature, in particular the concept of the human and its relation to knowledge, immortality, and magic. Papers may include analyses of canonical versions of the Faust story (Christopher Marlowe, Goethe, Thomas Mann) as well as non-canonical and interdisciplinary approaches.

Friday, March 24

David Hawkes, Lehigh College
“Doctor Faustus and the Performative Sign”
Andrew Stott, SUNY Buffalo
“Ha, ha, ha! Faustus hath his leg again: Ludic Intelligence in Christopher Marlowe’s Doctor Faustus”
Jolene Felkner, Warnborough University
“Marlowe’s Doctor Faustus: The Written Word and human Limitation”
Deborah Vietor-Engländer, Darmstadt University Germany
“Goethe’s Faust the Canon and its Manipulation”

Saturday, March 25

Charles McKnight, University of North Carolina, Ashville
“The Faust Cantatas of Adrian Leverkühn and the Alfred Schnittke”
Inez Hedges, Northeastern University
“ De Ghelderode and the Death of Doctor Faustus”
Ann Marie Ross, California State University, Dominguez Hills
“New-Found Worlds and the Conquest of Nations: Marlowe’s Doctor Faustus as Protestant Imperialist”
Anne M. Dubernet, University of California, Santa Barbara
“Valéry’s Mon Faust: Staging Conflicts”

Affiliated Seminar(s):

• Faust Legend and the Human, Part II