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Ibsen's kingdom : the man and his works.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Sprinchorn, Evert, author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Ibsen, Henrik, 1828-1906.
- Ibsen, Henrik.
- Dramatists, Norwegian--Biography.
- Dramatists, Norwegian.
- Ibsen, Henrik, 1828-1906--Criticism and interpretation.
- Criticism and interpretation.
- Genre:
- Biographies.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource
- polychrome
- Place of Publication:
- New Haven : Yale University Press, [2020]
- System Details:
- text file
- Summary:
- A major biography of Henrik Ibsen--one of the most important figures in modern drama--evoked through a biographical reading of his plays "An exhaustive examination of Ibsen's life and work by a major scholar of Scandinavian literature, Ibsen's Kingdom is the fullest analysis of Ibsen as a 'poet of paradoxes.'"--Joan Templeton, author of Ibsen's Women "[An] exemplary biography of the so-called Norwegian sphinx."-- Choice Nineteenth-century 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 ambitious biography constructs Ibsen's life through a biographical reading of his plays. It presents provocative and insightful analyses of Ibsen's works, placing them and their author within the social, political, and intellectual foment of nineteenth-century Europe. Sprinchorn captures for readers what it is that made these plays genius, and how Ibsen's works attained their influential place not only in the field of drama, but in a wide intellectual sphere across Europe and the world. This sweeping new look at Ibsen's plays is informative and useful as well as absorbing and thought-provoking. It will captivate anyone interested in the history of drama and the foundations of modernism.
- Contents:
- Part 1 The third kingdom
- A Contrary Spirit p. 9
- A Divided Soul p. 16
- The Apprentice p. 31
- The Failure p. 41
- God's Stepchild p. 54
- Purity of Heart p. 64
- Peer Gynt p. 81
- Peer Gynt Meets Hegel p. 92
- Falling Out with Bjornson p. 102
- Falling In with Brandes p. 111
- The League of Youth p. 122
- Particular Interests p. 135
- Old Debts Repaid p. 143
- Ibsen in Command p. 155
- Those Little Devils p. 171
- Anti-Brand p. 179
- The Prudent Revolutionary p. 189
- Emperor and Galilean p. 199
- Ibsen the Mystic p. 214
- Julian as Ibsen p. 220
- Concordance of Opposites p. 227
- Another Triumph p. 235
- Part 2 The divided kingdom
- Changing Times p. 243
- The Problem Play p. 256
- Pillars of Society p. 261
- The Road to A Doll's House p. 268
- The Women Behind the Play p. 275
- The Well-Made Play Transformed p. 284
- The Ghosts at Rosenvold p. 295
- Syphilis, the Unmentionable Disease p. 307
- Public Enemy p. 320
- The Slain Pegasus p. 334
- The Wild Duck p. 345
- The Past Recaptured p. 359
- The Depths of the Sea p. 369
- A Visit to Norway p. 382
- Rosmersholm p. 395
- After Rosmersholm p. 412
- The Lady from the Sea p. 423
- The Immoralists p. 438
- The Unspoken Hedda p. 456
- Part 3 The lost kingdom
- World Fame p. 473
- New Directions p. 485
- Who Is Hilda? p. 490
- The Story of Solness p. 501
- The Man Behind the Mask p. 505
- The Return of Nora p. 508
- Solness as Superman p. 514
- Conquering France p. 516
- Little Eyolf p. 522
- John Gabriel Borkman p. 535
- Foldal and Hinkel p. 545
- Seventieth-Birthday Celebrations p. 557
- A Dramatic Epilogue p. 564
- The Last Years p. 575.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Electronic reproduction. New York Available via World Wide Web.
- Print version record.
- Local Notes:
- Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Department of Germanic Languages Book Fund.
- Other Format:
- Print version: SPRINCHORN, EVERT. IBSEN'S KINGDOM.
- ISBN:
- 9780300256246
- 0300256248
- Publisher Number:
- 99986867284
- Access Restriction:
- Restricted for use by site license.
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