Research Catalog

Title

Ibsen's houses : architectural metaphor and the modern uncanny / Mark B. Sandberg, University of California, Berkeley.

Author

Sandberg, Mark B., 1958-

Publication

Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2015.

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Details

Description

x, 226 pages; 24 cm

Summary

"Henrik Ibsen's plays came at a pivotal moment in late nineteenth-century European modernity. They engaged his public through a strategic use of metaphors of house and home, which resonated with experiences of displacement, philosophical homelessness, and exile. The most famous of these metaphors - embodied by the titles of his plays A Doll's House, Pillars of Society, and The Master Builder - have entered into mainstream Western thought in ways that mask the full force of the reversals Ibsen performed on notions of architectural space. Analyzing literary and performance-related reception materials from Ibsen's lifetime, Mark B. Sandberg concentrates on the interior dramas of the playwright's prose-play cycle, drawing also on his selected poems. Sandberg's close readings of texts and cultural commentary present the immediate context of the plays, provide new perspectives on them for international readers, and reveal how Ibsen became a master of the modern uncanny"--

Subject

• Ibsen, Henrik, 1828-1906 > Criticism and interpretation
• Ibsen, Henrik, 1828-1906
• Space (Architecture) in literature
• Metaphor in literature
• DRAMA / Continental European
• Architektur

Genre/Form

Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

Machine generated contents note: Introduction; 1. Ibsen's uncanny; 2. Facades unmasked; 3. Home and house; 4. The tenacity of architecture; Conclusion.

ISBN

• 9781107033924 (hardback)
• 1107033926 (hardback)

LCCN

• 2014050257
• 99963055055

OCLC

• ocn900560010
• 900560010
• SCSB-5801679

Owning Institutions

Columbia University Libraries