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Ibsen´s Houses: Architectural Metaphor and the Modern Uncanny
Mark B. Sandberg
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Description for Ibsen´s Houses: Architectural Metaphor and the Modern Uncanny
hardcover. Mark B. Sandberg analyses reception materials to explore the architectural metaphors that Ibsen's plays introduced into mainstream Western thought. Num Pages: 236 pages, 16 b/w illus. BIC Classification: DSBF; DSG. Category: (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 238 x 162 x 18. Weight in Grams: 514.
Henrik Ibsen's plays came at a pivotal moment in late nineteenth-century European modernity. They engaged his public through a strategic use of metaphors of house and home, which resonated with experiences of displacement, philosophical homelessness, and exile. The most famous of these metaphors - embodied by the titles of his plays A Doll's House, Pillars of Society, and The Master Builder - have entered into mainstream Western thought in ways that mask the full force of the reversals Ibsen performed on notions of architectural space. Analyzing literary and performance-related reception materials from Ibsen's lifetime, Mark B. Sandberg concentrates on the ... Read more
Henrik Ibsen's plays came at a pivotal moment in late nineteenth-century European modernity. They engaged his public through a strategic use of metaphors of house and home, which resonated with experiences of displacement, philosophical homelessness, and exile. The most famous of these metaphors - embodied by the titles of his plays A Doll's House, Pillars of Society, and The Master Builder - have entered into mainstream Western thought in ways that mask the full force of the reversals Ibsen performed on notions of architectural space. Analyzing literary and performance-related reception materials from Ibsen's lifetime, Mark B. Sandberg concentrates on the ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Cambridge University Press
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2015
Condition
New
Weight
513g
Number of Pages
236
Place of Publication
Cambridge, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781107033924
SKU
V9781107033924
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About Mark B. Sandberg
Mark B. Sandberg holds the position of Professor, jointly appointed in the Department of Scandinavian and the Department of Film and Media at the University of California, Berkeley. He is currently President of the Ibsen Society of America and a member of the International Ibsen Committee, and is also a past President of the Society for the Advancement of Scandinavian ... Read more
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