The Making of Modern Drama

The Making of Modern Drama
Author: Richard Gilman
Publisher: Yale University Press
Total Pages: 324
Release: 2000-01-01
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 9780300079029

This critical exploration of modern drama begins with Büchner and Ibsen and then discusses the major playwrights who have shaped modern theater. A new introduction by the author assesses developments of recent years.

August Strindberg and the Other

August Strindberg and the Other
Author:
Publisher: BRILL
Total Pages: 203
Release: 2022-05-20
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 9004456236

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.

A Madman's Defense

A Madman's Defense
Author: August Strindberg
Publisher: Peter Smith Publisher
Total Pages: 330
Release: 1981
Genre: Fiction
ISBN:

A Critical Cinema 2

A Critical Cinema 2
Author: Scott MacDonald
Publisher: Univ of California Press
Total Pages: 475
Release: 2023-04-28
Genre: Performing Arts
ISBN: 0520912861

This sequel to A Critical Cinema offers a new collection of interviews with independent filmmakers that is a feast for film fans and film historians. Scott MacDonald reveals the sophisticated thinking of these artists regarding film, politics, and contemporary gender issues. The interviews explore the careers of Robert Breer, Trinh T. Minh-ha, James Benning, Su Friedrich, and Godfrey Reggio. Yoko Ono discusses her cinematic collaboration with John Lennon, Michael Snow talks about his music and films, Anne Robertson describes her cinematic diaries, Jonas Mekas and Bruce Baillie recall the New York and California avant-garde film culture. The selection has a particularly strong group of women filmmakers, including Yvonne Rainer, Laura Mulvey, and Lizzie Borden. Other notable artists are Anthony McCall, Andrew Noren, Ross McElwee, Anne Severson, and Peter Watkins. 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 1994. This sequel to A Critical Cinema offers a new collection of interviews with independent filmmakers that is a feast for film fans and film historians. Scott MacDonald reveals the sophisticated thinking of these artists regarding film, politics, and

Strindberg and the Poetry of Myth

Strindberg and the Poetry of Myth
Author: Harry G. Carlson
Publisher: Univ of California Press
Total Pages: 254
Release: 2023-04-28
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 0520321146

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 1982.

To be and Not to be

To be and Not to be
Author: Göran Rossholm
Publisher: Peter Lang
Total Pages: 388
Release: 2004
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 9783039100477

To Be And Not to Be is a study of the interrelated concepts interpretation, iconicity and fiction as applied to works of art in general and literary narratives in particular. Two perspectives run through the book: a semiotic one, focusing on the work of art and what it stands for - represents, expresses, alludes to, etc. - and a psychological one, focusing on the audience's interpretation of the work. The book establishes an ongoing dialogue with recent research within analytic aesthetics, narratology and other relevant fields. In particular, the philosopher Nelson Goodman's theory of symbols has proved to be fruitful in the development of new and original concept formations with respect to interpretation, iconicity and fictionality. In the first part some fundamental questions of literary theory are focused on, foremost what is meant by «intentional interpretation», the relation between literary interpretation and understanding of everyday spontaneous discourse as analyzed by Paul Grice, and how to locate aesthetic interpretation within the wider scope of interpretive practices. These discussions yield some conceptual tools deployed in the two following parts of the book. The second part opens with a suggestion on the concept of pictorial representation. This is generalized to apply to verbal and literary phenomena such as temporal matching, quotation, and uses of point of view in narratives. In the final part recent philosophical accounts of fictionality are discussed.

The Novel of August Strindberg

The Novel of August Strindberg
Author: Eric O. Johannesson
Publisher: Univ of California Press
Total Pages: 336
Release: 2023-04-28
Genre: Literary Collections
ISBN: 0520336240

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.

The International Strindberg

The International Strindberg
Author: Anna Westerståhl Stenport
Publisher: Northwestern University Press
Total Pages: 288
Release: 2012-11-30
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 0810128500

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.

The Novels of August Strindberg

The Novels of August Strindberg
Author: Eric O. Johannesson
Publisher: University of California Press
Total Pages: 336
Release: 2021-01-08
Genre: Literary Collections
ISBN: 0520336232

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.

Strindberg's Dramaturgy

Strindberg's Dramaturgy
Author: Göran Stockenström
Publisher: U of Minnesota Press
Total Pages: 399
Release: 1988
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 1452908079