TY  - BOOK
AU  - Moi,Toril
ED  - Oxford University Press.
TI  - Henrik Ibsen and the birth of modernism: art, theater, philosophy 
SN  - 0199295875
AV  - PT8895 .M58 2006
PY  - 2006///
CY  - Oxford, New York
PB  - Oxford University Press
KW  - Ibsen, Henrik,
KW  - Modernism (Literature)
N1  - Includes bibliographical references (pages [367]-382) and index; Contents; List of Illustrations xiii; A Note on the Text xiv; An Ibsen Chronology xv; Introduction 1; PART I: IBSEN'S PLACE IN HISTORY; 1. Ibsen and the Ideology of Modernism 15; 2. Postcolonial Norway? Ibsen's Cultural Resources 37; 3. Rethinking Literary History: Idealism, Realism, and the Birth of Modernism 67; 4. Ibsen's Visual World: Spectacles, Painting, Theater 105; PART II: IBSEN'S MODERN BREAKTHROUGH; 5. The Idealist Straitjacket: Ibsen's Early Aesthetics 145; 6. Becoming Modern: Modernity and Theater in Emperor and Galilean 188; 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 223; 8. Losing Touch with the Everyday: Love and Language in The Wild Duck 248; 9. Losing Faith in Language: Fantasies of Perfect Communication in Rosmersholm 269; 10. The Art of Transformation: Art, Marriage, and Freedom in The Lady from the Sea 294; Epilogue: Idealism and the ``Bad'' Everyday 316; Appendix 1: Synopsis of Emperor and Galilean 325; Appendix 2: Translating Ibsen 328; Notes 334; Bibliography 367; Index 000
ER  -