Syllabus Spring 2020
Primary texts
Plays
Peer Gynt (1867), preferably in Peer Gynt and Brand, London, Penguin, 2016.
A Doll’s House (1879), preferably in A Doll’s House and other Plays, London: Penguin, 2016.
Rosmersholm, preferably in Hedda Gabler and Other Plays, London, Penguin, 2019 (released December, 5)
The Master Builder, preferably in The Master Builder and Other Plays, London, Penguin, 2014.
An Enemy of the People (1882), preferably in A Doll’s House and other Plays, London: Penguin, 2016.
When We Dead Awaken (1899), preferably in The Master Builder and Other Plays, London, Penguin, 2014.
Performances and adaptations
Gatas Gynt (2008), directed by Hallvard Bræin (screening on 23 January 20 at 9.00).
Critical literature (books)
Sandberg, Mark. 2015. Ibsen’s Houses. Architectural Metaphor and the Modern Uncanny. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
Critical literature (articles in compendium)
Ruthven, K.K. 2001. Faking Literature. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1–4, 34–62.
Hanssen, Jens-Morten. 2018. Ibsen on the German Stage 1876–1918: A Quantitative study. Tübingen: Narr Francke Attempto, p.154-196
Critical literature (articles available online)
D’Amico, Giuliano. 2019. “Solguden and Other Stories. Hamsun, Ibsen and Forgery”. Edda 106 (IV). (Link TBA)
Habermas, Jürgen. 2008. “Notes on Post-Secular Society”. New Perspectives Quarterly 25 (IV), 17–29. (https://archive.kenan.ethics.duke.edu/religion/files/2017/04/Habermas-Notes-on-Post-Secular-Society.pdf)
Hanssen, Jens-Morten. 2019.“Digital Humanities and Theatre Studies”. Ibsen Studies 19(I)(https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/15021866.2018.1550875)
Holledge, Julie et al. 2016. A Global Doll’s House: Ibsen and Distant Visions. London: Palgrave Macmillan, 71–105. (http://search.ebscohost.com.ezproxy.uio.no/login.aspx?direct=true&db=nlebk&AN=1336535&site=ehost-live&ebv=EK&ppid=Page-__-62)
Moretti, Franco. 2000. “Conjectures on World Literature”. New Left Review 1, 54–68. (https://newleftreview.org/issues/II1/articles/franco-moretti-conjectures-on-world-literature)
Nye, Joseph S. 2008. “Public Diplomacy and Soft Power”. The Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science 616, 94–109.(https://doi-org.ezproxy.uio.no/10.1177%2F0002716207311699)
Rees, Ellen. 2015. “Post-Secular Salvation. Hallvard Bræin’s Gatas Gynt”. Nordlit 34, 371–378. https://doi.org/10.7557/13.3382
Wilkens, Matthew. 2015. “Digital Humanities and Its Application in the Study of Literature and Culture”. Comparative Literature 67 (I), 11–20. (https://read.dukeupress.edu/comparative-literature/article/67/1/11/7813/Digital-Humanities-and-Its-Application-in-the)
Suggested background reading
De Figueiredo, Ivo. 2019. Ibsen. The Man & The Mask. New Haven: Yale UP.
Janet Garton’s, Toril Moi’s and Tore Rem’s introductions in the respective New Penguin Ibsen editions.