Henrik Ibsen and the Birth of Modernism  32368

Art, Theater, Philosophy

  • 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
    1. The Idealist Straitjacket: Ibsen’s Early Aesthetics
    2. Becoming Modern: Modernity and Theater in Emperor and Galilean
  • Part III: Ibsen’s Modernism: Love in an Age of Skepticism
    1. “First and Foremost a Human Being”: Idealism, Theater, and Gender in A Doll’s House
    2. Losing Touch with the Everyday: Love and Language in The Wild Duck
    3. Losing Faith in Language: Fantasies of Perfect Communication in Rosmersholm
    4. The Art of Transformation: Art, Marriage, and Freedom in The Lady from the Sea
  • Epilogue: Idealism and the “Bad” Everyday
  • Appendices
    1. Synopsis of Emperor and Galilean
    2. Translating Ibsen

Topics covered by this book

  1. Rosmersholm (drama) • p269 • Chapter 9: Losing Faith in Language: Fantasies of Perfect Communication in Rosmersholm
  2. Rosmersholm (drama) • p328 • Appendix 2 - Translating Ibsen: 3.10 speech by Rebekka in literal translation by Moi and English translations by Rolf Fjelde, Brian Johnston, James McFarlane and Michael Meyer.
  3. The Lady from the Sea (drama) • p294 • Chapter 10: The Art of Transformation: Art, Marriage, and Freedom in The Lady from the Sea
  4. Emperor and Galilean (drama) • p188 • Chapter 6: Becoming Modern: Modernity and Theater in Emperor and Galilean
  5. Emperor and Galilean (drama) • p325 • Appendix 1: Synopsis
  6. A Doll’s House (drama) • p223 • Chapter 7: "First and Foremost a Human Being": Idealism, Theater, and Gender in A Doll's House
  7. The Wild Duck (drama) • p248 • Chapter 8: Losing Touch with the Everyday: Love and Language in The Wild Duck
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