Course 2: Henrik Ibsen´s oeuvre in perspective of its reception
history
Course content:
6 works
Syllabus: Sample corresponding to two works (400 p.)
Filmography:
Works
Henrik Ibsen:
Peer Gynt
A Doll’s House
James Joyce:
Dubliners
Eugene O’Neill:
Long Day's Journey Into Night
Cao Yu:
Peking Man
A.S. Byatt:
The Biographer’s Tale
Filmography
Selected TV productions, movies and other Ibsen performances
Syllabus
Antonucci, Giovanni: “Ibsen's stagings in Italy” in: Ibsen tra noi:acta of the seminar 3
september 1994, Oslo 1997, p. 10-18
Barton, John: “On Staging Ibsen” – Interview by Janet Garton in: The Cambridge
companion to Ibsen, edited by James McFarlane, Cambridge 1994, p. 217-226
Britain, I.M.: “Bernard Shaw, Ibsen, and the ethics of English socialism”
in: Victorian studies: 21, Bloomington 1978, p. 381-401
Chengzhou, He: “Chinese ‘Noraism’ – How far can Nora go?” and “Ibsen, Cao Yu and
the Chinese tradition of poetic imagery” in: Henrik Ibsen and Chinese Modern Drama,
Oslo 2002, p. 12-20 and 191-207
Englert, Uwe: “Ibsen and theatre life in Nazi Germany” in: Contemporary approaches to
Ibsen: 7 (1991), 85-100
George, David E.R.: “Ibsen and German naturalist drama” in: Ibsen-årbok 1967, 119139:
Gerould, Daniel Charles: “George Bernhard Shaw's criticism of Ibsen” in: Comparative
Literature: - 15/1963, Eugene, p. 130-145
Glass, Dudley: “Ibsen in music” in: Scandinavian Review: - Vol. 66, no. 4, New York
(1978), 51 p.
Hofmannsthal, Hugo von: “The people in Ibsen's dramas”, translated by J.W. McFarlane
and Carla Hvistendahl in: Discussions of Henrik Ibsen, edited by J.W. McFarlane, Boston
1962, p. 83-88
Marker, Frederick J. and Marker, Lise-Lone: “Early Ibsen performances in America” in:
Scandinavian Review: - 66:4 (1978), New York, p. 20-34
Paul, Fritz: “World maps of translation: Ibsen from Norway to China” in: Ibsen at the
Centre for advanced study, edited by Vigdis Ystad, Oslo 1997, p. 61-81
Printz-Påhlson, Göran: “Rosmersholm as novel, as film: passion as action”
in: Contemporary approaches to Ibsen: 7 (1991), Oslo, p. 185-203
Rønning, Helge: “Dr. Ibsen goes to Hollywood: reflections on the intersection between
Ibsen's dramatic art and the moving image” in: International Ibsen Conference (8: 1997:
Gossensaß): Ibsen im europäischen Spannungsfeld zwischen Naturalismus und
Symbolismus: Kongressakten der 8. Internationalen Ibsen-Konferenz, Gossensass, 23.28.6.1997, Frankfurt a. Main 1998, p. 189-204
Shepherd-Barr, Kirsten: “Ibsen, Munch and the relationship between modernist theatre
and art” in: Nordic Theatre Studies: - 12 (1999), p. 43-53
Templeton, Joan: “Antoine versus Lugné-Poe: the battle for Ibsen on the French stage”
in: International Ibsen Conference (8: 1997: Gossensaß): Ibsen im europäischen
Spannungsfeld zwischen Naturalismus und Symbolismus: Kongressakten der 8.
Internationalen Ibsen-Konferenz, Gossensass, 23.-28.6.1997, Frankfurt am Main 1998, p.
71-82
- “The Munch-Ibsen connection: exposing a critical myth” in: Scandinavian studies 72:4
(2000), Menasha, Wis, p. 445-462
Tysdahl, Bjørn: “Ibsen's stories in Joyce's Dubliners” in: Anglo-Scandinavian crosscurrents, edited by Inga-Stina Ewbank, Olav Lausund and Bjørn Tysdahl, Norwich 1999,
p. 265-279
Törnqvist, Egil: “Ibsen on film and television” in: The Cambridge companion to Ibsen,
edited by James McFarlane, Cambridge 1994, p. 205-216
- “Page, stage and screen: the opening of Ibsen's Gengangere (Ghosts)”
in: Tijdschrift voor Skandinavistiek: 17:1 (1996), Groningen, p. 27-52
- Representing the source text: “Ibsen's Et dukkehjem/A doll's house (1879)”
in: Transposing drama: studies in representation, Basingstoke 1991, p. 62-94
Wedekind, Franz: “Ibsen the writer and Solness the master-builder” in: Bentley at 70,
Ibsen revalued, modern mystery plays: Theater three: 1-1986, Pittsburgh 1986, p. 94-103
Wiingaard, Jytte: “Henrik Ibsen and Denmark” in: Ibsen studies: 2:1, Oslo (2002), 9-33