Henrik Ibsen and the Birth of Modernism Art, Theater, Philosophy

Name: Henrik Ibsen and the Birth of Modernism Art, Theater, Philosophy
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ISBN: 9780199295876

ISBN-10: 0199295875

ISBN-13: 9780199295876

Edition: 2006

Authors: Toril Moi

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Henrik Ibsen (1828-1906) is the founder of modern theater, and his plays are performed all over the world. Yet in spite of his unquestioned status as a classic of the stage, Ibsen is often dismissed as a fuddy-duddy old realist, whose plays are of interest only because they remain the gateway to modern theater. In Ibsen's Modernism, Toril Moi makes a powerful case not just for Ibsen's modernity, but for his modernism. Situating Ibsen in his cultural context, she shows how unexpectedhis rise to world fame was, and the extent of his influence on writers such Shaw, Wilde, and Joyce who were seeking to escape the shackles of Victorianism.Henrik Ibsen and the Birth of Modernism also rewrites…

Book details

List price: $60.00
Copyright year: 2006
Publisher: Oxford University Press, Incorporated
Publication date: 8/24/2006
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 416
Size: 6.14" wide x 9.21" long x 1.43" tall
Weight: 1.694
Language: English



List of Illustrations


A Note on the Text


An Ibsen Chronology


Introduction



Ibsen's Place in History



Ibsen and the Ideology of Modernism



Postcolonial Norway? Ibsen's Cultural Resources



Rethinking Literary History: Idealism, Realism, and the Birth of Modernism



Ibsen's Visual World: Spectacles, Painting, Theater



Ibsen's Modern Breakthrough



The Idealist Straitjacket: Ibsen's Early Aesthetics



Becoming Modern: Modernity and Theater in Emperor and Galilean



Ibsen's Modernism: Love in an Age of Skepticism



"First and Foremost a Human Being": Idealism, Theater, and Gender in A Doll's House



Losing Touch with the Everyday: Love and Language in The Wild Duck



Losing Faith in Language: Fantasies of Perfect Communication in Rosmersholm



The Art of Transformation: Art, Marriage, and Freedom in The Lady from the Sea


Epilogue: Idealism and the "Bad" Everyday



Synopsis of Emperor and Galilean



Translating Ibsen


Notes


Bibliography


Index