The Origins of Drama in Scandinavia

The Origins of Drama in Scandinavia
Title The Origins of Drama in Scandinavia PDF eBook
Author Terry Gunnell
Publisher Boydell & Brewer Ltd
Pages 446
Release 1995
Genre Literary Collections
ISBN 9780859914581

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A fresh look at early dramatic activity in Scandinavia, using archaeological, historical and literary evidence.

Ibsen, Scandinavia and the Making of a World Drama

Ibsen, Scandinavia and the Making of a World Drama
Title Ibsen, Scandinavia and the Making of a World Drama PDF eBook
Author Narve Fulsås
Publisher Cambridge University Press
Pages 294
Release 2017-11-16
Genre Literary Criticism
ISBN 1316992799

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Henrik Ibsen's drama is the most prominent and lasting contribution of the cultural surge seen in Scandinavian literature in the later nineteenth century. When he made his debut in Norway in 1850, the nation's literary presence was negligible, yet by 1890 Ibsen had become one of Europe's most famous authors. Contrary to the standard narrative of his move from restrictive provincial origins to liberating European exile, Narve Fulsås and Tore Rem show how Ibsen's trajectory was preconditioned on his continued embeddedness in Scandinavian society and culture, and that he experienced great success in his home markets. This volume traces how Ibsen's works first travelled outside Scandinavia and studies the mechanisms of his appropriation in Germany, Britain and France. Engaging with theories of book dissemination and world literature, and re-assessing the emergence of 'peripheral' literary nations, this book provides new perspectives on the work of this major figure of European literature and theatre.

Scandinavia: A History

Scandinavia: A History
Title Scandinavia: A History PDF eBook
Author Ewan Butler
Publisher New Word City
Pages 159
Release 2016-04-12
Genre History
ISBN 1612309534

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Here is the dramatic story of Scandinavia - from its earliest Germanic origins and Viking sea raids to its battles for independence and its involvement in World War II. Denmark, Finland, Norway, and Sweden, writes award-winning historian Ewan Butler writes, struggled through unions and separations, with both outsiders and each other, developing their own personalities and languages yet retaining their ancient connections.

The Routledge Research Companion to the Medieval Icelandic Sagas

The Routledge Research Companion to the Medieval Icelandic Sagas
Title The Routledge Research Companion to the Medieval Icelandic Sagas PDF eBook
Author Ármann Jakobsson
Publisher Routledge
Pages 516
Release 2017-02-17
Genre Literary Criticism
ISBN 1317041461

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The last fifty years have seen a significant change in the focus of saga studies, from a preoccupation with origins and development to a renewed interest in other topics, such as the nature of the sagas and their value as sources to medieval ideologies and mentalities. The Routledge Research Companion to the Medieval Icelandic Sagas presents a detailed interdisciplinary examination of saga scholarship over the last fifty years, sometimes juxtaposing it with earlier views and examining the sagas both as works of art and as source materials. This volume will be of interest to Old Norse and medieval Scandinavian scholars and accessible to medievalists in general.

The Cambridge History of Scandinavia

The Cambridge History of Scandinavia
Title The Cambridge History of Scandinavia PDF eBook
Author Knut Helle
Publisher Cambridge University Press
Pages 942
Release 2003-09-04
Genre History
ISBN 9780521472999

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This volume presents a comprehensive exposition of both the prehistory and medieval history of the whole of Scandinavia. The first part of the volume surveys the prehistoric and historic Scandinavian landscape and its natural resources, and tells how man took possession of this landscape, adapting culturally to changing natural conditions and developing various types of community throughout the Stone, Bronze and Iron Ages. The rest - and most substantial part of the volume - deals with the history of Scandinavia from the Viking Age to the end of the Scandinavian Middle Ages (c. 1520). The external Viking expansion opened Scandinavia to European influence to a hitherto unknown degree. A Christian church organisation was established, the first towns came into being, and the unification of the three medieval kingdoms of Scandinavia began, coinciding with the formation of the unique Icelandic 'Free State'.

The Scandinavian Theatre

The Scandinavian Theatre
Title The Scandinavian Theatre PDF eBook
Author Frederick J.. Marker
Publisher
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Release 1975
Genre
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Norway's Christiania Theatre, 1827-1867

Norway's Christiania Theatre, 1827-1867
Title Norway's Christiania Theatre, 1827-1867 PDF eBook
Author Ann Schmiesing
Publisher Fairleigh Dickinson Univ Press
Pages 284
Release 2006
Genre Performing Arts
ISBN 9780838641071

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Norway's struggle to assert an independent cultural and political identity in the nineteenth century was played out with particular fervor at the Christiania Theatre in Christiania (now Oslo). Until the 1860s the Danish actors and directors dominated the Christiania Theatre, and even plays written by Norwegian authors were performed in Danish. This study examines the intellectual campaigns that transformed the Christiania Theatre from a Danish stage into the forerunner of Norway's National Theatre. It focuses on the culture wars between the Norwegian nationalists and the so-called Danomanians in the 1830s; the promotion of the Hegelian and national romantic cultural agenda in the 1840s and 1850s; Bjornson's and Ibsen's rejection of both radical nationalism and the entrenched Danishness of the theater in the 1850s' and Bjornson's ambitious attempt to reform the theater in the mid-1860s. It is illustrated. Ann Schmiesing is an Associate Professor of Scandinavian and German literature and culture at the University of Colorado at Boulder.