Syllabus/achievement requirements

Primary texts
Plays


Peer Gynt (1867), preferably in Peer Gynt and Brand, London, Penguin, 2016.

Pillars of the Community (1877), preferably in A Doll’s House and other Plays, London: Penguin, 2016.

A Doll’s House (1879), preferably in A Doll’s House and other Plays, London: Penguin, 2016.

Hedda Gabler (1890) (any edition)


Performances and adaptations

Peer Gynt (to be watched live at Det norske teater on 29 January 2019)

Gatas Gynt (2008), directed by Hallvard Br?in (screening on 14 February 2019 at 9.00).


Critical literature


Adorno, Theodor W. 1974. Minima Moralia. London: NLB, aphorisms 56–58.

Allen, Graham. 2011. Intertextuality. London: Routledge, 3–7 and 203–216.

Ewbank, Inga-Stina. 1997. Spiritual Property: Intertextuality and Influence in Ibsen’s Texts.” In Contemporary Approaches to Ibsen, edited by Bj?rn Hemmer and Vigdis Ystad, 35–50. Oslo: Universitetsforlaget.

Gjervan, Ellen. 2011. “Ibsen Staging Ibsen: Henrik Ibsen’s Culturally Embedded Staging Practice in Bergen”. Ibsen Studies 11 (II): 117–144.

–––. 2012. “Henrik Ibsen’s Two Stage Renderings”. Ibsen Studies 12 (II): 89–102.

Hanssen, Jens-Morten. 2017. Ibsen on the German Stage 1876–1918: A Quantitative Approach. Oslo: University of Oslo, 15–40.

–––. 2019.“Digital Humanities and Theatre Studies”. Ibsen Studies 19(I).

Helland, Frode. 2018. “The Scars of Modern Life. Hedda Gabler in Adorno’s Prism”. In Ibsen’s Hedda Gabler: Philosophical Perspectives, edited by Kristin Gjesdal, 92–111. Oxford: Oxford University Press.

Holledge, Julie et al. 2016. A Global Doll’s House: Ibsen and Distant Visions. London: Palgrave Macmillan, 71–105 and 117–156.

Hutcheon, Linda. 2006. A Theory of Adaptation. London: Routledge, 1–32.

Lang?s, Unni. 2005. “What Did Nora Do? Thinking Gender with A Doll’s House”. Ibsen Studies 5 (II): 148–171.

Moretti, Franco. 2000. “Conjectures on World Literature”. New Left Review 1, 54–68.

Nye, Joseph S. 2008. “Public Diplomacy and Soft Power”. The Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science 616, 94–109.

Nyhus, Svein Henrik. 2019 Ibsen in the American Theatre 1879-1914. Oslo: University of Oslo: 1–52.

Rees, Ellen. 2014. Ibsen’s “Peer Gynt” and the Production of Meaning. Oslo: Centre for Ibsen Studies, 85–108.

–––. 2015. “Post-Secular Salvation. Hallvard Br?in’s Gatas Gynt”. Nordlit 34, 371–378.

Sandberg, Mark. 2015. Ibsen’s Houses. Architectural Metaphor and the Modern Uncanny. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 18–55.
Templeton, Joan. 1997. Ibsen’s Women. Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 110–145.

Watson, Nicola. 2006. The Literary Tourist: Readers and Place in Romantic and Victorian Britain. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 1–20.

Wilkens, Matthew. 2015. “Digital Humanities and Its Application in the Study of Literature and Culture”. Comparative Literature 67 (I), 11–20.


Suggested background reading


Meyer, Michael. 1971. Ibsen. A Biography. Garden City, NY: Doubleday.
Janet Garton’s, Toril Moi’s and Tore Rem’s introductions in the respective New Penguin Ibsen editions.

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