Ibsen and the Greeks: The Classical Greek Dimension in Selected Works of Henrik Ibsen as Mediated by German and Scandinavian Culture"Was Ibsen influenced by Greek culture? Were allusions to the Greeks configured in the Norwegian playwright's works? According to author Norman Rhodes, whether consciously or unconsciously, many of Ibsen's plays are encoded with veiled references to ancient Greek culture. Rhodes also postulates that Ibsen's perception of the importance of the Greeks was most likely mediated to him through German Romanticism and Scandinavian culture." "According to Rhodes, numerous echoes of Greek literature resonate in such early Ibsen plays as Catiline, The Warrior's Barrow, Olaf Liljerkrans, and Love's Comedy. Ibsen's Brand and Peer Gynt are a dialectic pair which in key ways are suggestive of Homer's Iliad and Odyssey, A Doll House has important parallels with Sophocles' Antigone, and An Enemy of the People correlates with both Plato's Apology and Sophocles' Oedipus Tyrannos. Moreover, a Euripidean sense of fatal irrationality seems inscribed in Ibsen's final plays: the protagonists John Rosmer, Hedda Gabler, Master Builder Solness, John Gabriel Borkman, and the sculptor Rubek all destroy themselves."--BOOK JACKET.Title Summary field provided by Blackwell North America, Inc. All Rights Reserved |
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... gods : The chamber is actually for us what Olympus was for the Greeks ; here the people have set up their gods , and from their elevated posi- tions these gods , in majestic calm and untouched by the turbulence of the times , look down ...
... gods : The chamber is actually for us what Olympus was for the Greeks ; here the people have set up their gods , and from their elevated posi- tions these gods , in majestic calm and untouched by the turbulence of the times , look down ...
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... gods . Gandalf , too , would be saved if he were to accept her Christian god . Blanka criticizes his Viking ways and the cold , hard spirit of the North . She urges him to accept the tenderness and caring of the South - treasures of the ...
... gods . Gandalf , too , would be saved if he were to accept her Christian god . Blanka criticizes his Viking ways and the cold , hard spirit of the North . She urges him to accept the tenderness and caring of the South - treasures of the ...
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... gods , which caused chaos and destruction in the affairs of men . Brand is also tragic . It is a story about death - the death of its hero and the destruction of his ideal . Brand portrays a culture which chooses materialism over ...
... gods , which caused chaos and destruction in the affairs of men . Brand is also tragic . It is a story about death - the death of its hero and the destruction of his ideal . Brand portrays a culture which chooses materialism over ...
Contents
Frequently Cited Works | 10 |
Ibsens Essays Articles and | 50 |
Catiline 1850 to Loves Comedy | 63 |
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Contemporary Approaches to Ibsen: Proceedings of the ... International Ibsen ... No preview available - 1997 |