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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... human effort has brought forth . " Friedrich Hebbel , whom Ibsen much admired , claimed the Antigone was " the masterpiece of masterpieces , next to which there is nothing that can be set , old or new . " Thomas de Quincy , reviewing a ...
... human effort has brought forth . " Friedrich Hebbel , whom Ibsen much admired , claimed the Antigone was " the masterpiece of masterpieces , next to which there is nothing that can be set , old or new . " Thomas de Quincy , reviewing a ...
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... human community.45 Betty Friedan contends that A Doll House was a pivotal , inspira- tional drama for women at the turn of the century : " Thousands of women in middle - class Europe and America , in that Victorian time , saw themselves ...
... human community.45 Betty Friedan contends that A Doll House was a pivotal , inspira- tional drama for women at the turn of the century : " Thousands of women in middle - class Europe and America , in that Victorian time , saw themselves ...
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... human being , neither more nor less ; and I assume that anyone I may have the honor to talk with is also a human being . " 57 Schiller expresses similar sentiments : " 56 Anyone who is capable of placing himself in a central position ...
... human being , neither more nor less ; and I assume that anyone I may have the honor to talk with is also a human being . " 57 Schiller expresses similar sentiments : " 56 Anyone who is capable of placing himself in a central position ...
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 |