Ibsen in Context
Ibsen in Context
AUD$181.95
inc GSTHenrik Ibsen, the 'Father of Modern Drama', came from a seemingly inauspicious background. What are the key contexts for understanding his appearance on the world stage? This collection provides thirty contributions from leading scholars in theatre studies, literary studies, book history, philosophy, music, and history, offering a rich interdisciplinary understanding of Ibsen's work, with chapters ranging across cultural and aesthetic contexts including feminism, scientific discovery, genre, publishing, music, and the visual arts. The book ends by charting Ibsen's ongoing globalization and gives valuable overviews of major trends within Ibsen studies. Accessibly written, while drawing on the most recent scholarship, Ibsen in Context provides unique access to Ibsen the man, his works, and their afterlives across the world.
- Short essays on key topics within Ibsen Studies provide students and scholars with an easily digestible reference work
- Offers readers access to fresh contributions to Ibsen studies, including a unique amount of material on the playwright's Scandinavian contexts and some of his most important foreign receptions
- Takes an interdisciplinary approach, with contributions from literary scholars, historians, and philosophers
Reviews & endorsements
'The volume is a fine complement to The Cambridge Companion to Ibsen, ed. by James McFarlane, and it joins a recent spate of titles on the genius progenitor of realism on the modern stage … Highly recommended.' H. I. Einsohn, Choice Magazine
Product details
April 2021Hardback
9781108422208
400 pages
155 × 235 × 25 mm
0.62kg
Available
Table of Contents
- Preface
- Acknowledgements
- Note on the text
- Chronology
- Part I. Life and Career:
- 1. Early years in Norway Narve Fulsås
- 2. From theatre to book Narve Fulsås
- 3. Bourgeois drama Narve Fulsås
- Part II. Culture and Society:
- 4. Genres Mads B. Claudi
- 5. Realism Derek Miller
- 6. Theatre Julie Holledge
- 7. Visual arts Toril Moi
- 8. Music Daniel M. Grimley
- 9. Philosophy Kristin Gjesdal
- 10. Science Kirsten Shepherd-Barr
- 11. Feminism Toril Moi
- 12. Capitalism Alisa Zhulina
- Part III. Scandinavian Reception:
- 13. The Ibsen book Kamilla Aslaksen
- 14. Publishing and readerships Henning Hansen and Maria Purtoft
- 15. Criticism Ståle Dingstad
- 16. Celebrity Peter Larsen
- Part IV. Internationalization:
- 17. Copyright Giuliano D'Amico
- 18. Censorship Tore Rem
- 19. German reception Ruth Schor
- 20. British reception Tore Rem
- 21. French reception Kirsten Shepherd-Barr
- 22. Parodies Mark B. Sandberg
- 23. Early globalization Julie Holledge
- Part V. Afterlives:
- 24. Biography Ståle Dingstad
- 25. Academic responses Erik Bjerck Hagen
- 26. American Ibsens Dean Krouk
- 27. Japanese Ibsens Reiko Abe Auestad
- 28. Chinese Ibsens Chengzhou He
- 29. Indian Ibsens Krishna Sen
- 30. Mass media and popular reception Ellen Rees
- Further reading
- Index.
