Beschreibung:

XVII; 410 S. Broschiert.

Bemerkung:

Gutes Ex. - Preface to The Ibsen Cycle Preface to the First Edition Acknowledgments Abbreviations Introduction -- PART I -- The "Dramatic" Content of Hegel's Philosophy The Philosophical Content of Ibsen's Drama The Structure of the Cycle -- PART II -- Archetypal Repetition in Ghosts -- The Dialectic of Rosmersholm -- Death and Transfiguration in The Master Builder -- Epilogue: Ibsen and Modernism -- Appendix 1: Ghosts Appendix 2: Rosmersholm Appendix 3: The Master Builder Selected Bibliography // "Attempting no less a task than to demonstrate that Ibsen planned his last twelve plays, beginning with Pillars of Society, as a cycle paralleling exactly Hegel's account of the evolution of the human consciousness, The Phenomenology of Mind, Johnston offers a fresh look at the Norwegian master. Although there is little specific biographical data in support of the author's thesis, he argues compellingly for it in his analysis of the texts themselves. After discussing Hegel's dramatic method of exposition and Ibsen's philosophy, Johnston examines each of the twelve plays in considerable detail. Provocative and sophisticated in its approach, this volume should be widely available to scholars and advanced students of modern drama." - Library Journal. ISBN 0271008741