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Zusatztext Moi's clear-eyed revaluation of the playwright...is particularly good on Ibsen's women! refusing to idealise them and placing them at the heart of his investigative project. Informationen zum Autor Toril Moi was born and raised in Norway, and worked in England in the 1980s, before moving to Duke University in 1989, where she is now the James B. Duke Professor of Literature and Romance Studies. She is the author of influential books on feminist theory. The second edition of her landmark study of Simone de Beauvoir will be published in January 2008. Klappentext This is a major critical study of Henrik Ibsen by a leading literary theorist. Toril Moi offers a radical reappraisal of Ibsen's place in the birth of modernism and the origins of modern theatre, his influence on other writers, and the connection between his visual imagination and his plays. Zusammenfassung This is a major critical study of Henrik Ibsen by a leading literary theorist. Toril Moi offers a radical reappraisal of Ibsen's place in the birth of modernism and the origins of modern theatre, his influence on other writers, and the connection between his visual imagination and his plays.
List of contents
- An Ibsen Chronology
- Introduction
- Part I: Ibsen's Place in History
- 1: Ibsen and the Ideology of Modernism
- 2: Postcolonial Norway? Ibsen's Cultural Resources
- 3: Rethinking Literary History: Idealism, Realism, and the Birth of Modernism
- 4: Ibsen's Visual World: Spectacles, Painting, Theater
- Part II: Ibsen's Modern Breakthrough
- 5: The Idealist Straitjacket: Ibsen's Early Aesthetics
- 6: Becoming Modern: Modernity and Theater in Emperor and Galilean
- Part III: Ibsen's Modernism: Love in an Age of Skepticism
- 7: 'First and Foremost a Human Being': Idealism, Theater, and Gender in A Doll's House
- 8: Losing Touch with the Everyday: Love and Language in The Wild Duck
- 9: Losing Faith in Language: Fantasies of Perfect Communication in Rosmersholm
- 10: The Art of Transformation: Art, Marriage, and Freedom in The Lady From the Sea
- Epilogue: Idealism and the 'Bad' Everyday
- Appendix 1: Synopsis of Emperor and Galilean
- Appendix 2: Translating Ibsen
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...an illuminating rer-valuation of the influence of aesthetic idealism, a welcome discussion about the need to take back real language in literary criticism, a veritable handbook of imaginative approaches to take to the culture clash of the nineteenth century, a sometimes fruitful, often frustrating, even troubling read for those who have been engaged with Ibsen for a long time... Mary Kay Norseng MLR
