Strindberg Other Sides

Author : August Strindberg
Publisher : Peter Lang Incorporated, International Academic Publishers
Page : 418 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 1997
Category : Drama
ISBN : STANFORD:36105019413017

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Strindberg--other Sides by August Strindberg Pdf

Martin (theater, American U.) offers new translations of The Ghost Sonata, The Pelican, Carl XII, The Dance of Death, The Stronger, Pariah, and Simoom that are based on the new Swedish critical edition of Strindberg's works. He discusses "other sides" of Strindberg unknown to many Americans, notably his unusual mix of social and political criticism with a mystic philosophy influenced by Schopenhauer, Swedenborg, and Buddhism. Includes the first US publication of the dramatic fragment Toten-Insel. No index. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR

Author : Anonim
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 203 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2022-05-20
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9789004456235

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August Strindberg and the Other by Anonim Pdf

The recent sesquicentennial of August Strindberg's (1849-1912) birth was an appropriate occasion for investigating the role of this towering figure in Nordic literature. By Eugene O'Neill once labeled the most modern of moderns, Strindberg the playwright has commanded a prophetic influence on 20th century drama and theater, and his voluminous production in several other genres continues to constitute a watershed and some of the highpoints in Swedish letters. Yet, Strindberg remains as controversial today as he was in his lifetime. The nature and degree of his modernity are still under discussion, and so is the impact of his remarkable genre-proliferation and border-transgressing Swedishness. Once considered too unruly for the pillars of society and too pious for the radicals, his artistic and existential points of gravity remain in critical dispute. Generally subjected to traditional modes of inquiry, Strindberg's complexity calls for new critical approaches. Strindberg and the Other brings together scholars, younger and older, from Scandinavia and abroad, who either venture such new approaches or engage their practitioners in fruitful dialogue. Especially promising among the volume's methodological and theoretical propositions is the notion of the 'other' and 'otherness.' Indeed, the image of August Strindberg himself is quite an-other at this millennium than it was just half a century ago.

Author : Egil Törnqvist
Publisher : Amsterdam University Press
Page : 270 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2000-01-01
Category : Drama
ISBN : 9789053564356

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Strindberg's The Ghost Sonata by Egil Törnqvist Pdf

Generally considered one of milestones in the development of modern drama, August Strindberg's chamber play The Ghost Sonata (1907) has variously been hailed as the first expressionist, surrealist and absurdist drama. In this monograph of the play as text and as performance —the first of its kind—Egil Trnqvist examines, in four chapters, the source text, various translations of it into English, the stage versions of Max Reinhardt, Olof Molander and Ingmar Bergman, and select radio and TV adaptations. In two framing chapters the background and impact of the play are illuminated. Focusing on Bergman's 1973 production, the book in addition contains a rehearsal diary and a transcription of this production. It is concluded with an annotated list of select productions.

Author : John H. Muse
Publisher : University of Michigan Press
Page : 247 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2017-10-13
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780472053636

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Microdramas by John H. Muse Pdf

In Microdramas, John H. Muse argues that plays shorter than twenty minutes deserve sustained attention, and that brevity should be considered a distinct mode of theatrical practice. Focusing on artists for whom brevity became both a structural principle and a tool to investigate theater itself (August Strindberg, Maurice Maeterlinck, F. T. Marinetti, Samuel Beckett, Suzan-Lori Parks, and Caryl Churchill), the book explores four episodes in the history of very short theater, all characterized by the self-conscious embrace of brevity. The story moves from the birth of the modernist microdrama in French little theaters in the 1880s, to the explicit worship of speed in Italian Futurist synthetic theater, to Samuel Beckett’s often-misunderstood short plays, and finally to a range of contemporary playwrights whose long compilations of shorts offer a new take on momentary theater. Subjecting short plays to extended scrutiny upends assumptions about brief or minimal art, and about theatrical experience. The book shows that short performances often demand greater attention from audiences than plays that unfold more predictably. Microdramas put pressure on preconceptions about which aspects of theater might be fundamental and about what might qualify as an event. In the process, they suggest answers to crucial questions about time, spectatorship, and significance.

Author : Richard Abel,Rick Altman
Publisher : Indiana University Press
Page : 350 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2001-10-03
Category : Music
ISBN : 0253214793

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The Sounds of Early Cinema by Richard Abel,Rick Altman Pdf

The Sounds of Early Cinema is devoted exclusively to a little-known, yet absolutely crucial phenomenon: the ubiquitous presence of sound in early cinema. "Silent cinema" may rarely have been silent, but the sheer diversity of sound(s) and sound/image relations characterizing the first 20 years of moving picture exhibition can still astonish us. Whether instrumental, vocal, or mechanical, sound ranged from the improvised to the pre-arranged (as in scripts, scores, and cue sheets). The practice of mixing sounds with images differed widely, depending on the venue (the nickelodeon in Chicago versus the summer Chautauqua in rural Iowa, the music hall in London or Paris versus the newest palace cinema in New York City) as well as on the historical moment (a single venue might change radically, and many times, from 1906 to 1910). Contributors include Richard Abel, Rick Altman, Edouard Arnoldy, Mats Björkin, Stephen Bottomore, Marta Braun, Jean Châteauvert, Ian Christie, Richard Crangle, Helen Day-Mayer, John Fullerton, Jane Gaines, André Gaudreault, Tom Gunning, François Jost, Charlie Keil, Jeff Klenotic, Germain Lacasse, Neil Lerner, Patrick Loughney, David Mayer, Domi-nique Nasta, Bernard Perron, Jacques Polet, Lauren Rabinovitz, Isabelle Raynauld, Herbert Reynolds, Gregory A. Waller, and Rashit M. Yangirov.

Author : Arnold Weinstein
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 352 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2024-01-16
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780691254791

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The Lives of Literature by Arnold Weinstein Pdf

A passionate, wry, and personal book about how the greatest works of literature illuminate our lives Why do we read literature? For Arnold Weinstein, the answer is clear: literature allows us to become someone else. Literature changes us by giving us intimate access to an astonishing variety of other lives, experiences, and places across the ages. Reflecting on a lifetime of reading, teaching, and writing, The Lives of Literature explores, with passion, humor, and whirring intellect, a professor’s life, the thrills and traps of teaching, and, most of all, the power of literature to lead us to a deeper understanding of ourselves and the worlds we inhabit. As an identical twin, Weinstein experienced early the dislocation of being mistaken for another person—and of feeling that he might be someone other than he had thought. In vivid readings elucidating the classics of authors ranging from Sophocles to James Joyce and Toni Morrison, he explores what we learn by identifying with their protagonists, including those who, undone by wreckage and loss, discover that all their beliefs are illusions. Weinstein masterfully argues that literature’s knowing differs entirely from what one ends up knowing when studying mathematics or physics or even history: by entering these characters’ lives, readers acquire a unique form of knowledge—and come to understand its cost. In The Lives of Literature, a master writer and teacher shares his love of the books that he has taught and been taught by, showing us that literature matters because we never stop discovering who we are.

Author : Eszter Szalczer
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 234 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2011
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780415414227

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August Strindberg by Eszter Szalczer Pdf

In this volume, the author provides a critical introduction to August Strindberg's vital contributions to theatrical modernism by placing his work in a wider cultural and interdisciplinary context.

Author : Otto Heller
Publisher : BoD – Books on Demand
Page : 98 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2020-07-31
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9783752382334

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Prophets of Dissent: Essays on Maeterlinck, Strindberg,Nietzsche and Tolstoy by Otto Heller Pdf

Reproduction of the original: Prophets of Dissent: Essays on Maeterlinck, Strindberg,Nietzsche and Tolstoy by Otto Heller

Author : Jonathan Schroeder,Anna Westerstahl Stenport,Eszter Szalczer
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 269 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2018-09-20
Category : Art
ISBN : 9781501338014

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August Strindberg and Visual Culture by Jonathan Schroeder,Anna Westerstahl Stenport,Eszter Szalczer Pdf

August Strindberg and Visual Culture addresses the multiplicity of Strindberg's artistic and literary output. The book charts the vital intersections between theatre, aesthetic theory, and visual elements in his work that have been left largely unexplored. Rather than following traditional genre-bound critical approaches, this book focuses on the intermediality of individual works, the corpus as a whole, and their connections to a wide array of historical and contemporary artists, writers, photographers, film, theatre and museum practitioners. The book is beautifully illustrated, with many never-before-seen images from Strindberg's work, and includes contributions from actress Liv Ullmann, director Robert Wilson, and curator and museum director Daniel Birnbaum.

Author : Eric O. Johannesson
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2023-04-28
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 9780520336247

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The Novel of August Strindberg by Eric O. Johannesson Pdf

This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press’s mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1968.

Author : Eric O. Johannesson
Publisher : University of California Press
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2021-01-08
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 9780520336230

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The Novels of August Strindberg by Eric O. Johannesson Pdf

This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press’s mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1968.

Author : Anna Westerståhl Stenport
Publisher : Northwestern University Press
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2012-11-30
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780810128507

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The International Strindberg by Anna Westerståhl Stenport Pdf

The International Strindberg presents the latest research on the Swedish playwright August Strindberg and his relation to modern and contemporary literature and art. Strindberg's career spanned the late nineteenth and early twentieth century.

Author : August Strindberg
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 480 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 1992-05-04
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 0226777278

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Strindberg's Letters, Volume 1 by August Strindberg Pdf

This is the first major collection in English of August Strindberg's letters, the most vital and wide-ranging body of correspondence in Scandinavian literature. Of ten thousand surviving letters, Michael Robinson has selected and translated more than five hundred of the most important, which trace Strindberg's development and provide a comprehensive view of the life and work of this towering figure in European literary and theatrical Modernism.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Ardent Media
Page : 148 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 1962
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 8210379456XXX

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Strindberg by Anonim Pdf

Author : Michael Robinson
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 227 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2009-09-24
Category : Drama
ISBN : 9781139827447

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The Cambridge Companion to August Strindberg by Michael Robinson Pdf

August Strindberg is one of the most enduring of nineteenth-century dramatists, and is also an internationally recognised novelist, autobiographer, and painter. This Companion presents contributions by leading international scholars on different aspects of Strindberg's highly colourful life and work. The essays focus primarily on his most celebrated plays; these include the Naturalist Dramas, The Father and Miss Julie; the experimental dramas with which he created a true modernist theatre – To Damascus and A Dream Play; and the Chamber Plays of 1908 which, like so much of his work, exerted a powerful influence on much later twentieth-century drama. His plays are contextualised for what they contribute both to the history of drama and developments in theatre practice, and other essays clarify the enormous importance to these dramas of his other work, most notably the autobiographical novel Inferno, and his lifelong interest in science, the occult, sexual politics, and the visual arts.