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From: Wordsworth Circle
Date: 20070922
Author:Schmid, Susanne
(Oxford Univ. Pr, 2007) liv + 343 $170.00
Literary business can resemble a detective story, as Frederick Burwick and James C. McKusick's edition of Faustus: from the German of Goethe. Translated by Samuel Taylor Coleridge proves, a thrilling account of the interlocking mechanisms of translation, adaptation, literary competition, collaboration, and, eventually, forgetting. The editors offer overwhelming evidence that assigns the authorship of a known yet hitherto anonymous translation of Johann Wolfgang von Goethe's canonical drama Faust, published by Thomas Boosey and Sons in ...
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