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Faust: The First Part of the Tragedy
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Ideal for readers interested in classic German literature, poetry, drama, and translations that maintain stylistic integrity.
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While preserving the line structure of the German original and verbal echoes that permeate the poem, Margaret Kirby's translation of Faust: The First Part of the Tragedy attempts to capture in unrhymed modern English the distinctive voices, wide metrical range, quick shifts in tone, comic and tragic registers, and other key stylistic elements of Goethe's greatest poetic and dramatic masterpiece.
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Jane Brown of the University of Washington praises Kirby's translation for its simplicity and clarity, noting it closely mirrors Goethe's German text line for line while successfully evoking the original's dynamic metrical variation.
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INFORMATION
ISBN: 9781585107407
Publisher: Focus Publishing/R Pullins & Co
Format: Paperback / softback
Date Published: 05 September 2015
Country: United States
Imprint: Focus Publishing/R Pullins & Co
Illustration: Illustrations
Audience: General / adult
DIMENSIONS
Width: 153.0mm
Height: 229.0mm
Weight: 261g
Pages: 192
About the Author
Margaret Kirby has been a tutor at St. John's College since 1990.
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