UID:
edocfu_9959696079702883
Format:
1 online resource (xxxvi, 187 pages) :
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digital, PDF file(s).
ISBN:
1-139-80119-8
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1-139-00270-8
Series Statement:
Cambridge companions to literature
Uniform Title:
Cambridge companions online.
Content:
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.
Note:
Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 09 Nov 2015).
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August Strindberg : the art and science of self-dramatization / Linda Haverty Rugg -- Strindberg and the woman question / Margaretha Fahlgren -- Learning to speak : Strindberg and the novel / Ulf Olsson -- Between realism and modernism : the modernity of Strindberg's autobiographical writings / Per Stounbjerg -- Miss Julie, naturalism, 'The battle of the brains,' and sexual desire / Ross Shideler -- Strindberg and comedy / Hans-Goran Ekman -- Crisis and change : Strindberg the unconscious modernist / Göran Stockenström -- A modernist dramaturgy / Eszter Szalczer -- The chamber plays / Lynn R. Wilkinson -- The history plays / Matthew H. Wikander -- Strindberg in the theatre / Frederick J. Marker and Lise-Lone Marker -- Bergman's Strindberg / Egil Törnqvist -- Strindberg and modern drama : some lines of influence / Freddie Rokem.
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English
Additional Edition:
ISBN 0-521-60852-X
Additional Edition:
ISBN 0-521-84604-8
Language:
English
