The Idealist Straitjacket: Ibsen’s Early Aesthetics
Becoming Modern: Modernity and Theater in Emperor and Galilean
Part 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
Appendices
Synopsis of Emperor and Galilean
Translating Ibsen
Topics covered by this book
Rosmersholm (drama) • p269 • Chapter 9: Losing Faith in Language: Fantasies of Perfect Communication in Rosmersholm
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.
The Lady from the Sea (drama) • p294 • Chapter 10: The Art of Transformation: Art, Marriage, and Freedom in The Lady from the Sea
Emperor and Galilean (drama) • p188 • Chapter 6: Becoming Modern: Modernity and Theater in Emperor and Galilean