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Northern arts : the breakthrough of Scandinavian literature and art, from Ibsen to Bergman

Title: Northern arts : the breakthrough of Scandinavian literature and art, from Ibsen to Bergman / Arnold Weinstein.
Author: Weinstein, Arnold L.
Publication: Princeton : Princeton University Press, 2008.

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Description

xvii, 523 pages : portraits; 24 cm

Summary

"Writer and critic Arnold Weinstein guides us through the most startling works created by the writers and artists of Scandinavia over the past two centuries. Here readers will gain new perspectives on canonical giants such as Soren Kierkegaard, Henrik Ibsen, August Strindberg, Edvard Munch, Knut Hamsun, and Ingmar Bergman."--Jacket.

Subject

Bibliography (note)

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

Speaking God: Kierkegaard and Lagerkvist -- The play of patriarchy: Ibsen and Strindberg. Child's play: The cradle song in Strindberg's The father ; Metamorphosis in Ibsen's Little Eyolf -- The powers and the self: Strindberg's Inferno and Gustafsson's Tennis players -- Going through the wall: Shakespeare, Strindberg, Josephson, Bergman -- The child's revenge: Kierkegaard, Ibsen, Lindgren, Cronqvist -- Hamsun's Hunger and writing -- Stories of fusion: Vesaas's The ice palace and Bergman's Persona -- Breakthrough, time, and flux in Edvard Munch (the cubist) -- The case of Ernst Josephson -- Introducing Strindberg the painter.

ISBN

9780691125442
0691125449

LCCN

2008000864

OCLC

ocn190860083
190860083
SCSB-1487234

Owning Institutions

Princeton University Library