The Complete Major Prose Plays
The Complete Major Prose Plays

Author: Henrik Ibsen

Publisher: New York : Farrar, Straus & Giroux

Published: 1978-01-01

Total Pages: 1143

ISBN-13: 9780374174149

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Ibsen's twelve outstanding plays, from Pillars of Society to When We Dead Awaken, are accompanied by brief introductions illuminating the distinctive features of each

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Publisher: BoD – Books on Demand

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Total Pages: 510

ISBN-13: 3387098626

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Ibsen, Scandinavia and the Making of a World Drama
Ibsen, Scandinavia and the Making of a World Drama

Author: Narve Fulsås

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2017-11-16

Total Pages: 294

ISBN-13: 1316992799

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Henrik Ibsen's drama is the most prominent and lasting contribution of the cultural surge seen in Scandinavian literature in the later nineteenth century. When he made his debut in Norway in 1850, the nation's literary presence was negligible, yet by 1890 Ibsen had become one of Europe's most famous authors. Contrary to the standard narrative of his move from restrictive provincial origins to liberating European exile, Narve Fulsås and Tore Rem show how Ibsen's trajectory was preconditioned on his continued embeddedness in Scandinavian society and culture, and that he experienced great success in his home markets. This volume traces how Ibsen's works first travelled outside Scandinavia and studies the mechanisms of his appropriation in Germany, Britain and France. Engaging with theories of book dissemination and world literature, and re-assessing the emergence of 'peripheral' literary nations, this book provides new perspectives on the work of this major figure of European literature and theatre.

The Cambridge History of Modernism
The Cambridge History of Modernism

Author: Vincent Sherry

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2017-01-11

Total Pages: 1579

ISBN-13: 1316720535

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This Cambridge History of Modernism is the first comprehensive history of modernism in the distinguished Cambridge Histories series. It identifies a distinctive temperament of 'modernism' within the 'modern' period, establishing the circumstances of modernized life as the ground and warrant for an art that becomes 'modernist' by virtue of its demonstrably self-conscious involvement in this modern condition. Following this sensibility from the end of the nineteenth century to the middle of the twentieth, tracking its manifestations across pan-European and transatlantic locations, the forty-three chapters offer a remarkable combination of breadth and focus. Prominent scholars of modernism provide analytical narratives of its literature, music, visual arts, architecture, philosophy, and science, offering circumstantial accounts of its diverse personnel in their many settings. These historically informed readings offer definitive accounts of the major work of twentieth-century cultural history and provide a new cornerstone for the study of modernism in the current century.