Awards

• Winner of Modern Language Association Aldo and Jeanne Scaglione Prize for Comparative Literary Studies 2006.
• Winner of Winner of the 15th annual Aldo and Jeanne Scaglione Prize for Comparative Literary Studies 2006.

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Author:   Toril Moi
Publisher:   Oxford University Press
Imprint:   Oxford University Press
Dimensions:   Width: 15.60cm , Height: 3.40cm , Length: 23.30cm
Weight:   0.642kg
ISBN:  

9780199202591

ISBN 10:   0199202591
Pages:   416
Publication Date:   14 February 2008
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational ,  Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

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

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...an illuminating rer-valuation of the influence of aesthetic idealism, a welcome discussion about the need to take back real language in literary criticism, a veritable handbook of imaginative approaches to take to the culture clash of the nineteenth century, a sometimes fruitful, often frustrating, even troubling read for those who have been engaged with Ibsen for a long time... Mary Kay Norseng MLR The best literary criticism makes us see authors and literary works in a new light and inspires us with a desire to reread them. This is the critical alchemy that Toril Moi achieves with her accessibly written yet genuinely scholarly book Henrik Ibsen and the Birth of Modernism. A sustained study of a single major author, the book also has global sweep and interdisciplinary breadth. Moi situates Ibsen and Norway within the European republic of letters, overturns the conventional reading of Ibsen as a realist predecessor of modern theater, and produces a compelling answer to the perennial question, What is modernism? By reframing Ibsen as a modernist, Moi gives fresh meaning to Ibsens work across disciplines and to his influential engagement with modern visual culture. MLA Prize Committee Moi's clear-eyed revaluation of the playwright...is particularly good on Ibsen's women, refusing to idealise them and placing them at the heart of his investigative project. Plays International

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Toril Moi was born and raised in Norway, and worked in England in the 1980s, before moving to Duke University in 1989, where she is now the James B. Duke Professor of Literature and Romance Studies. She is the author of influential books on feminist theory. The second edition of her landmark study of Simone de Beauvoir will be published in January 2008.

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