Ibsen at the Centre for Advanced Study
Ystad, Vigdis:Modern Ibsen scholarship is multi-faceted. It covers language-related and inter-textual studies, theoretical analysis of translations, approaches to genre-related problems, and studies connecting authorship with social, cultural, and history-of-sensibility contexts. All of these approaches are represented in this anthology, written by a group of Ibsen scholars who were invited fellows at the Centre for Advanced Study at the Norwegian Academy for Science and Letters during the academic years 1992-94.
Here are studies that concern Ibsen’s use of seminal sources such as the Bible, Shakespeare, and Kierkegaard. There are philosophical and dramaturgical analyses of individual plays and groups of plays, analyses from the perspective of social history, and a thorough examination of the problematic aspects of translation. Of special interest is the opening part, focusing on Ibsen’s beginnings as a published writer. In this section is also included a translation of a series of Ibsen’s early poems, previously not published outside Scandinavia.
Eminent national as well as international scholars and researchers have contributed to this exciting book within an important area of humanities research. This book shows that we are able not only to gain rich input through contact with the international research community, but also to contribute to that community with our special background and competence as experts on Ibsen’s own language and our knowledge of the Scandinavian literary and intellectual history that formed the essential background for his writing.
This book gives a rare opportunity to be up-to-date on different aspects of contemporary Ibsen research.
Publisher: Universitetsforlaget 1997
ISBN: 82-00-22495-3
276 pages, hardcover
Published in English
