Strindberg’s Dramaturgy.
Title:
Strindberg’s Dramaturgy.
Author:
Stockenstrom, Goran.
ISBN:
9780816600076
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Physical Description:
1 online resource (399 pages)
Series:
Nordic Series ; v.16
Nordic Series
Contents:
Contents -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- PART I. Strindberg's Dramas: Historical Dimensions -- Chapter 1. Strindberg and Humanism -- Chapter 2. Strindberg and the Superman -- Chapter 3. Strindberg and the Dream of the Golden Age: The Poetics of History -- Chapter 4. Charles XII as Historical Drama -- PART II. Strindberg in the Modern Theater: Dramatic Form and Discourse -- Chapter 5. Strindberg and the Tradition of Modernity: Structure of Drama and Experience -- Chapter 6. Strindberg "Our Contemporary": Constructing and Deconstructing To Damascus I -- Chapter 7. Macro-Form in Strindberg's Plays: Tight and Loose Structure -- Chapter 8. Strindberg's Dream-Play Technique -- Chapter 9. The Camera and the Aesthetics of Repetition: Strindberg's use of Space and Scenography in Miss Julie, A Dream Play, and The Ghost Sonata -- PART III. The Naturalistic or Supernaturalistic Plays: Dramatic Discourse and Stagings -- Chapter 10. Strindberg's Vision: Microscopic or Spectroscopic? -- Chapter 11. Strindberg and the French Drama of His Time -- Chapter 12. Love without Lovers: Ingmar Bergman's Julie -- Chapter 13. Naturalism or Expressionism: A Meaningful Mixture of Styles in The Dance of Death (I) -- PART IV. The Dream Plays: Dramatic Discourse and Stagings -- Chapter 14. Expressionistic Features in To Damascus (I) -- Chapter 15. Titanism and Satanism in To Damascus (I) -- Chapter 16. To Damascus (I): A Dream Play? -- Chapter 17. Charles XII as Dream Play -- Chapter 18. Theories and Practice in Staging A Dream Play -- Chapter 19. Staging A Dream Play -- Chapter 20. Directing A Dream Play: A Journey through the Waking Dream -- Chapter 21. The Tower of Babel: Space and Movement in The Ghost Sonata -- Chapter 22. Discourse and Scenography in The Ghost Sonata -- Chapter 23. Textual Clues to Performance Strategies in The Pelican -- Notes -- Index -- A -- B -- C.
D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Y -- Z.
Abstract:
The contributors to "Strindberg's Dramaturgy" - an international group of scholars, critics and directors - explore this complex pattern of signification or meaning in both his dramatic discourse and the actual staging of the plays. Their aim is to better understand Strindberg's impact on 20th century theatre from this dual point; the dialetic tension between text and stage characterizes every chapter in the book. Structured in four parts, the book opens with several essays that establish for Strindberg a historical context reaching beyond theatre - his place in Western humanism, his relation to Nietzsche, his use of myth and of Swedish history. The essays in Part 2 explore the nature of Strindberg's modernism, and those in Part 3 contrast the naturalistic plays of the 1880s with the post-inferno dramas to test continuities and changes in his work as it became, in Eugene O'Neill's words "supernaturalistic". In the last part, the authors tackle the dramaturgy of the dream plays, emphasizing the challenge they have always posed in the realm of creative stagecraft.
Local Note:
Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2017. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.
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