Henrik Ibsen and the birth of modernism: art, theater, philosophy

Abstract

An Ibsen Chronology Introduction PART I: IBSEN'S PLACE IN HISTORY 1. Ibsen and the Ideology of Modernism 2. Postcolonial Norway? Ibsen's Cultural Resources 3. Rethinking Literary History: Idealism, Realism, and the Birth of Modernism 4. Ibsen's Visual World: Spectacles, Painting, Theater PART II: IBSEN'S MODERN BREAKTHROUGH 5. The Idealist Straitjacket: Ibsen's Early Aesthetics 6. Becoming Modern: Modernity and Theater in Emperor and Galilean PART III: IBSEN'S MODERNISM: LOVE IN AN AGE OF SKEPTICISM 7. 'First and Foremost a Human Being': Idealism, Theater, and Gender in A Doll's House 8. Losing Touch with the Everyday: Love and Language in The Wild Duck 9. Losing Faith in Language: Fantasies of Perfect Communication in Rosmersholm 10. The Art of Transformation: Art, Marriage, and Freedom in The Lady From the Sea Epilogue: Idealism and the 'Bad' Everyday Appendix 1: Synopsis of Emperor and Galilean Appendix 2: Translating Ibsen