Norway's Christiania Theatre, 1827-1867

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

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.

The Drama of History

The Drama of History
Author: Kristin Gjesdal
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Total Pages: 241
Release: 2020-11-10
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 0190070765

The Drama of History plumbs the rich relationship between drama and philosophy. Kristin Gjesdal offers a lively and accessible discussion of the philosophical aspects of Henrik Ibsen's work. She shows how well-known nineteenth-century philosophers such as Hegel and Nietzsche develop their thoughts in interaction with the dramatic arts. At the heart of this interaction is a shared interest in exploring the existential condition of human life as lived andexperienced in history. In this sense, Gjesdal engages philosophy's capacity beyond its narrow academic confines.

Jacques Offenbach and the Making of Modern Culture

Jacques Offenbach and the Making of Modern Culture
Author: Laurence Senelick
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 371
Release: 2017-09-21
Genre: Music
ISBN: 1108326242

Offenbach's operas were a significant force for cultural change, both in his own time and in the decades to follow. In this book, Laurence Senelick demonstrates the ways in which this musical phenomenon took hold globally, with Offenbach's work offering an alternative, irreverent, sexualized view of life which audiences found liberating, both personally and socially. In the theatre, the composer also inspired cutting-edge innovations in stagecraft and design, and in this book, he is recognized as a major cultural influence, with an extensive impact on the spheres of literature, art, film, and even politics. Senelick argues that Offenbach's importance spread far beyond France, and that his provocative and entertaining works, often seen as being more style than substance, influenced numerous key artists, writers, and thinkers, and made a major contribution to the development of modern society.

Visualising Lost Theatres

Visualising Lost Theatres
Author: Joanne Tompkins
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 219
Release: 2022-08-25
Genre: Drama
ISBN: 1108752810

This pioneering study harnesses virtual reality to uncover the history of five venues that have been 'lost' to us: London's 1590s Rose Theatre; Bergen's mid-nineteenth-century Komediehuset; Adelaide's Queen's Theatre of 1841; circus tents hosting Cantonese opera performances in Australia's goldfields in the 1850s; and the Stardust showroom in 1950s Las Vegas. Shaping some of the most enduring genres of world theatre and cultural production, each venue marks a significant cultural transformation, charted here through detailed discussion of theatrical praxis and socio-political history. Using virtual models as performance laboratories for research, Visualising Lost Theatres recreates the immersive feel of venues and reveals performance logistics for actors and audiences. Proposing a new methodology for using visualisations as a tool in theatre history, and providing 3D visualisations for the reader to consult alongside the text, this is a landmark contribution to the digital humanities.

Nationalizing the Past

Nationalizing the Past
Author: S. Berger
Publisher: Springer
Total Pages: 546
Release: 2016-01-19
Genre: History
ISBN: 023029250X

Historians traditionally claim to be myth-breakers, but national history since the nineteenth century shows quite a record in myth-making. This exciting new volume compares how national historians in Europe have handled the opposing pulls of fact and fiction and shows which narrative strategies have contributed to the success of national histories.

Teaching Fairy Tales

Teaching Fairy Tales
Author: Nancy L. Canepa
Publisher: Wayne State University Press
Total Pages: 477
Release: 2019-03-25
Genre: Education
ISBN: 0814339360

Scholars from many different academic areas will use this volume to explore and implement new aspects of the field of fairy-tale studies in their teaching and research.

A Global Doll's House

A Global Doll's House
Author: Julie Holledge
Publisher: Springer
Total Pages: 244
Release: 2016-09-15
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 1137438991

This book addresses a deceptively simple question: what accounts for the global success of A Doll’s House, Henrik Ibsen’s most popular play? Using maps, networks, and images to explore the world history of the play’s production, this question is considered from two angles: cultural transmission and adaptation. Analysing the play’s transmission reveals the social, economic, and political forces that have secured its place in the canon of world drama; a comparative study of the play’s 135-year production history across five continents offers new insights into theatrical adaptation. Key areas of research include the global tours of nineteenth-century actress-managers, Norway’s soft diplomacy in promoting gender equality, representations of the female performing body, and the sexual vectors of social change in theatre.

Scandinavism: Overlapping and Competing Identities in the Nordic World, 1770-1919

Scandinavism: Overlapping and Competing Identities in the Nordic World, 1770-1919
Author: Tim van Gerven
Publisher: BRILL
Total Pages: 439
Release: 2022-01-21
Genre: History
ISBN: 9004507353

Through an in-depth analysis of historicist literature and art, this book demonstrates that cultural Scandinavism, despite its failure as a political mobilizer, was highly successful in strengthening and extending national consciousness-raising in Denmark, Norway, and Sweden.

2015 U.S. Higher Education Faculty Awards, Vol. 1

2015 U.S. Higher Education Faculty Awards, Vol. 1
Author: Faculty Awards
Publisher: CRC Press
Total Pages: 1209
Release: 2022-09-01
Genre: Education
ISBN: 1000819485

Created by professors for professors, the Faculty Awards compendium is the first and only university awards program in the United States based on faculty peer evaluations. The Faculty Awards series recognizes and rewards outstanding faculty members at colleges and universities across the United States. Voting was not open to students or the public at large.

The Early History of Embodied Cognition 1740-1920

The Early History of Embodied Cognition 1740-1920
Author:
Publisher: BRILL
Total Pages: 357
Release: 2016-01-12
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 9004309039

This pioneering book evaluates the early history of embodied cognition. It explores for the first time the life-force (Lebenskraft) debate in Germany, which was manifest in philosophical reflection, medical treatise, scientific experimentation, theoretical physics, aesthetic theory, and literary practice esp. 1740-1920. The history of vitalism is considered in the context of contemporary discourses on radical reality (or deep naturalism). We ask how animate matter and cognition arise and are maintained through agent-environment dynamics (Whitehead) or performance (Pickering). This book adopts a nonrepresentational approach to studying perception, action, and cognition, which Anthony Chemero designated radical embodied cognitive science. From early physiology to psychoanalysis, from the microbiome to memetics, appreciation of body and mind as symbiotically interconnected with external reality has steadily increased. Leading critics explore here resonances of body, mind, and environment in medical history (Reil, Hahnemann, Hirschfeld), science (Haller, Goethe, Ritter, Darwin, L. Büchner), musical aesthetics (E.T.A. Hoffmann, Wagner), folklore (Grimm), intersex autobiography (Baer), and stories of crime and aberration (Nordau, Döblin). Science and literature both prove to be continually emergent cultures in the quest for understanding and identity. This book will appeal to intertextual readers curious to know how we come to be who we are and, ultimately, how the Anthropocene came to be.