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Lyric poetry is usually regarded as a genre in its own right, delineated from narrative and dramatic texts. This publication intends to use categories from narrative theory to develop the argument that poems also display basic characteristics seen as indicative of the narrative (in particular, the perspectivized presentation of sequentially ordered events). The results are firstly significant revisions of genre-theory, and secondly a considerable extension and precision in processes of textual analysis - including the use of scheme theory as used in cognitive psychology.

Poetry --- German literature --- Narrative poetry, German --- German poetry --- Poésie allemande --- History and criticism. --- Histoire et critique --- Mass media. --- Narration (Rhetoric) --- Storytelling in mass media. --- Discourse analysis, Narrative. --- Mass media and language. --- Language and mass media --- Language and languages --- Narrative discourse analysis --- Mass media --- Narrative (Rhetoric) --- Narrative writing --- Rhetoric --- Discourse analysis, Narrative --- Narratees (Rhetoric) --- Mass communication --- Media, Mass --- Media, The --- Communication --- German narrative poetry --- History and criticism --- Histoire et critique. --- German-speaking countries/literature. --- interpretation. --- literary criticism. --- lyric poetry. --- narratology. --- Poésie allemande

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The Faust legend, which has come down to us most famously in Goethe's tragedy but also in countless other incarnations since the late sixteenth century, was first collected and presented as a cohesive narrative (in manuscript) by Christoph Rosshirt during the 1570s. Rosshirt was also the first to provide illustrations of Faust, hand-colored by Rosshirt himself. This book offers a critical edition of Rosshirt's six tales, including an introductory chapter, a fascimile of the manuscript, a transcription and first-ever English translation on facing pages, as well as a history of Faust illustrations, with Rosshirt's own illustrations and other examples up through Delacroix, the most complete survey of such illustrations to date. A final chapter rounds out the study with an assessment of Rosshirt's significance for the Faust tradition, a review of the evidence for a historical Faust, and a rejection of his historicity (because it is unprovable) in favor of his existence only in his story - a story Rosshirt helped to tell - and in our imaginations that animate that story.

Faust --- Rosshirt, Christoph, --- Doctor Faust --- Doctor Faustus --- Dr. Faust --- Dr. Faustus --- Faustus --- Criticism and interpretation. --- In literature. --- Illustrations. --- Art. --- Faust (Legendary character) - Legends --- Faust (Legendary character) - In literature --- Faust (Legendary character) - Art --- Rosshirt, Christoph, - -1586 - Criticism and interpretation --- Rosshirt, Christoph, - -1586 - Illustrations --- Faust (Legendary character) --- Rosshirt, Christoph, - -1586 --- LITERARY CRITICISM / European / German. --- Christoph Rosshirt. --- Critical Edition. --- English Translation. --- Faust Illustrations. --- Faust Legend. --- Faust Tales. --- Faust Tradition. --- German Heritage. --- German Narrative. --- German Novelist. --- Historical Analysis. --- Historicity. --- J.M. van der Laan. --- Middle Ages.