Ibsen's kingdom : the man and his works / / Evert Sprinchorn

• Autore: Sprinchorn Evert
• Pubblicazione: New Haven ; ; London : , : Yale University Press, , [2020]; ©2020
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (xiii, 667 pages) : portrait
• Disciplina: 839.8226
• Soggetto topico: Dramatists, Norwegian; BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Entertainment & Performing Arts
• Soggetto genere / forma: Criticism, interpretation, etc.; Biographies.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references (pages 631-645) and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Frontmatter -- CONTENTS -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- PART ONE. THE THIRD KINGDOM -- A Contrary Spirit -- A Divided Soul -- The Apprentice -- The Failure -- God's Stepchild -- Purity of Heart -- Peer Gynt -- Peer Gynt Meets Hegel -- Falling Out with Bjørnson -- Falling In with Brandes -- The League of Youth -- Particular Interests -- Old Debts Repaid -- Ibsen in Command -- Those Little Devils -- Anti-Brand -- The Prudent Revolutionary -- Emperor and Galilean -- Ibsen the Mystic -- Julian as Ibsen -- Concordance of Opposites -- Another Triumph -- PART TWO. THE DIVIDED KINGDOM -- Changing Times -- The Problem Play -- Pillars of Society -- The Road to A Doll's House -- The Women Behind the Play -- The Well-Made Play Transformed -- The Ghosts at Rosenvold -- Syphilis, the Unmentionable Disease -- Public Enemy -- The Slain Pegasus -- The Wild Duck -- The Past Recaptured -- The Depths of the Sea -- A Visit to Norway -- Rosmersholm -- After Rosmersholm -- The Lady from the Sea -- The Immoralists -- The Unspoken Hedda -- PART THREE LOST KINGDOM -- World Fame -- New Directions -- Who Is Hilda? -- The Story of Solness -- The Man Behind the Mask -- The Return of Nora -- Solness as Superman -- Conquering France -- Little Eyolf -- John Gabriel Borkman -- Foldal and Hinkel -- Seventieth-Birthday Celebrations -- A Dramatic Epilogue -- The Last Years -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Credits -- Index
• Sommario/riassunto: A major biography of one of the most important figures in modern drama, evoked through a biographical reading of his plays. Norwegian playwright Henrik Ibsen achieved unparalleled success in his lifetime and remains one of the most important figures in modern drama. The culmination of a lifetime of scholarship, Evert Sprinchorn's biography constructs Ibsen's life through a biographical reading of his plays with provocative and insightful analyses of his works, placing them and their author within the social, political, and intellectual foment of nineteenth-century Europe. This thought-provoking book will captivate anyone interested in the history of drama and the foundations of modernism.
• Titolo autorizzato: Ibsen's kingdom
• ISBN: 0-300-25624-8; 9780300256246; 0300256248
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910554250503321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II