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Henrik Ibsen and the birth of modernism : art, theater, philosophy / Toril Moi.

Moi, Toril. (Author).

Record details

ISBN: 0199295875 (alk. paper)
ISBN: 9780199295876
Physical Description: xvi, 396 pages, 4 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color) ; 24 cm
Publisher: Oxford ; Oxford University Press, 2006.

Content descriptions

Bibliography, etc. Note:

Includes bibliographical references (p. [367]-382) and index.

Formatted Contents Note:

Pt. I: 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. -- Pt. II: Ibsen's modern breakthrough. The idealist straitjacket: Ibsen's early aesthetics ; Becoming modern: modernity and theater in Emperor and Galilean. -- Pt. III: 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. -- Appendix I: Synopsis of Emperor and Galilean. -- Appendix II: Translating Ibsen.