Ibsen''s Houses - Architectural Metaphor and the Modern Uncanny

Mark B. Sandberg analyzes reception materials to explore the architectural metaphors that Ibsen's plays introduced into mainstream Western thought.

Table des matières

Introduction; 1. Ibsen's uncanny; 2. Facades unmasked; 3. Home and house; 4. The tenacity of architecture; Conclusion.

A propos de l'auteur

Mark B. Sandberg holds the position of Professor, jointly appointed in the Department of Scandinavian and the Department of Film and Media at the University of California, Berkeley. He is currently President of the Ibsen Society of America and a member of the International Ibsen Committee, and is also a past President of the Society for the Advancement of Scandinavian Study. His research focuses on late nineteenth- and early twentieth-century visual culture, including work in theater history, early cinema, paracinematic media and entertainments, and Scandinavian cultural history. He is the author of Living Pictures, Missing Persons: Mannequins, Museums, and Modernity (2003) and numerous articles on international silent film, the plays of Henrik Ibsen, and other topics in Scandinavian literary and cultural history.

Détails du produit

• Auteurs: Mark B. Sandberg, Mark B. (University of California Sandberg, Sandberg Mark B.
• Edition: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Langues: Anglais
• Format d'édition: Livre de poche
• Sortie: 31.12.2018
• EAN: 9781108458108
• ISBN: 978-1-108-45810-8
• Pages: 236
• Catégories: Littérature > Littérature (récits); Sciences humaines, art, musique > Linguistique et littérature > Linguistique et littérature anglaises; Europe, DRAMA / European / General, c 1800 to c 1900, 19th century, c 1800 to c 1899, Literary studies: c 1800 to c 1900, Literary studies: plays & playwrights, Theatre Direction & Production, Literary studies: plays and playwrights