Ibsen's Kingdom: The Man and His Works

Frontmatter -- CONTENTS -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- PART ONE. THE THIRD KINGDOM -- A Contrary Spirit -- A Divided Soul -- The Apprentice -- The Failure -- God’s Stepchild -- Purity of Heart -- Peer Gynt -- Peer Gynt Meets Hegel -- Falling Out with Bjørnson -- Falling In with Bra...

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1. Verfasser: Sprinchorn, Evert 1923- (VerfasserIn)
Format: Elektronisch E-Book
Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: New Haven, CT Yale University Press [2021]
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https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9780300256246
Zusammenfassung:Frontmatter -- CONTENTS -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- PART ONE. THE THIRD KINGDOM -- A Contrary Spirit -- A Divided Soul -- The Apprentice -- The Failure -- God’s Stepchild -- Purity of Heart -- Peer Gynt -- Peer Gynt Meets Hegel -- Falling Out with Bjørnson -- Falling In with Brandes -- The League of Youth -- Particular Interests -- Old Debts Repaid -- Ibsen in Command -- Those Little Devils -- Anti-Brand -- The Prudent Revolutionary -- Emperor and Galilean -- Ibsen the Mystic -- Julian as Ibsen -- Concordance of Opposites -- Another Triumph -- PART TWO. THE DIVIDED KINGDOM -- Changing Times -- The Problem Play -- Pillars of Society -- The Road to A Doll’s House -- The Women Behind the Play -- The Well-Made Play Transformed -- The Ghosts at Rosenvold -- Syphilis, the Unmentionable Disease -- Public Enemy -- The Slain Pegasus -- The Wild Duck -- The Past Recaptured -- The Depths of the Sea -- A Visit to Norway -- Rosmersholm -- After Rosmersholm -- The Lady from the Sea -- The Immoralists -- The Unspoken Hedda -- PART THREE LOST KINGDOM -- World Fame -- New Directions -- Who Is Hilda? -- The Story of Solness -- The Man Behind the Mask -- The Return of Nora -- Solness as Superman -- Conquering France -- Little Eyolf -- John Gabriel Borkman -- Foldal and Hinkel -- Seventieth-Birthday Celebrations -- A Dramatic Epilogue -- The Last Years -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Credits -- Index
A major biography of one of the most important figures in modern drama, evoked through a biographical reading of his plays Norwegian playwright Henrik Ibsen achieved unparalleled success in his lifetime and remains one of the most important figures in modern drama. The culmination of a lifetime of scholarship, Evert Sprinchorn’s biography constructs Ibsen’s life through a biographical reading of his plays with provocative and insightful analyses of his works, placing them and their author within the social, political, and intellectual foment of nineteenth-century Europe. This thought-provoking book will captivate anyone interested in the history of drama and the foundations of modernism
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ISBN:9780300256246

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