Ibsen Cycle The Design of the Plays from Pillars of Society to When We Dead Awaken

Name: Ibsen Cycle The Design of the Plays from Pillars of Society to When We Dead Awaken
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ISBN: 9780271008097

ISBN-10: 0271008091

ISBN-13: 9780271008097

Edition: 1992 (Revised)

Authors: Brian Johnston

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'Attempting no less a task than to demonstrate that Ibsen planned his last twelve plays, beginning with Pillars of Society, as a cycle paralleling exactly Hegel's account of the evolution of the human consciousness, The Phenomenology of Mind, Johnston offers a fresh look at the Norwegian master. Although there is little specific biographical data in support of the author's thesis, he argues compellingly for it in his analysis of the texts themselves. After discussing Hegel's dramatic method of exposition and Ibsen's philosophy, Johnston examines each of the twelve plays in considerable detail. Provocative and sophisticated in its approach, this volume should be widely available to scholars…

Book details

List price: $67.95
Copyright year: 1992
Publisher: Pennsylvania State University Press
Publication date: 5/8/1992
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 432
Size: 6.00" wide x 9.00" long x 1.06" tall
Weight: 1.716
Language: English

Brian Johnston is Professor of Dramatic Literature at Carnegie Mellon University. He is the author of To the Third Empire: Ibsen's Early Drama, Text and Supertext in Ibsen's Drama and The Ibsen Cycle. He is translator, with Rick Davis, of Ibsen: Volume I: Four Major Plays and translator of Ibsen: Volume II: Four Major Plays.



Preface to The Ibsen Cycle


Preface to the First Edition


Acknowledgments


Abbreviations


Introduction






The "Dramatic" Content of Hegel's Philosophy



The Philosophical Content of Ibsen's Drama



The Structure of the Cycle






Archetypal Repetition in Ghosts



The Dialectic of Rosmersholm



Death and Transfiguration in The Master Builder


Epilogue: Ibsen and Modernism



Ghosts



Rosmersholm



The Master Builder


Selected Bibliography


Index