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Autore: | Johnsson Henrik |
Titolo: | Ibsen and Degeneration : Familial Decay and the Fall of Civilization |
Pubblicazione: | Oxford : , : Taylor & Francis Group, , 2024 |
©2024 | |
Edizione: | 1st ed. |
Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (217 pages) |
Disciplina: | 839.822/6 |
Soggetto topico: | Degeneration in literature |
Heredity in literature | |
Nota di contenuto: | Cover -- Half Title -- Series -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Morel and the rise of degeneration discourse -- Marriage, family, and incest -- Disease, diathesis, and syphilis -- Energetic economy and the “fixed fund of energy” theory -- What does Ibsen do with degeneration discourse? -- A note on the form and scope of the book -- 1 The Rot of the Bourgeois Body: Ghosts (1881) -- Ibsen’s commentary on Ghosts -- The raising of bourgeois children -- Class, health, and sex -- Bourgeois patriarchy and Helene’s independence -- Alving’s decline and fall -- Osvald’s energetic inheritance -- Regine and regeneration -- 2 The Fall of the Old Order: Rosmersholm (1886) -- Hvide heste and its relationship to Rosmersholm -- Rosmer, Kroll, and the fall of the old order -- Marriage as the scene of threats to the social fabric -- Strength and weakness of will -- Brendel and the forces of entropy -- The useless deaths of Rosmer and Rebekka -- 3 Dominance and Deviance: Hedda Gabler (1890) |
Sommario/riassunto: | Henrik Ibsen's plays were written at a critical juncture in late nineteenth-century European culture. By reading these three plays from a fresh perspective, Ibsen and Degeneration sheds new light on some of Ibsen's most enduring contributions to world drama. |
Titolo autorizzato: | Ibsen and Degeneration |
ISBN: | 9781040098974 |
1040098975 | |
9781003470731 | |
1003470734 | |
9781040098981 | |
1040098983 | |
Formato: | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
Record Nr.: | 9910874781003321 |
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