IBS4205, New Perspectives in Ibsen Studies: Reading List
James M. Decker: Ideology, Palgrave Macmillan 2004 (chapers 1-3)
Joan Templeton: ”Of This Time, of This Place: Mrs. Alving’s Ghosts and the Shape of Tragedy”, PMLA vol. 101 (1986, no. 1)
James McFarlane: Ibsen and Meaning. Studies, Essays and Prefaces 1953-87, Norwich: Norvik Press 1989, Chapter four: ”Meaning and Evidence”
Frode Helland: Ibsen in Practice. Relational Readings of Performance, Cultural Encounters and Power, London&New York: Bloomsbury/Methuen 2015
Toril Moi: “Hedda’s Silences: Beauty and Despair in Hedda Gabler”, Modern Drama, vol. 56 (no 4, Winter 2013),
Frode Helland: ”Irony and Experience in Hedda Gabler”, Bj?rn Hemmer and Vigdis Ystad (eds.): Contemporary Approaches to Ibsen, Vol. VIII, Scandianvian University Press, Oslo 1994
Frode Helland & Julie Holledge: ”A Doll’s House as National Tradition: Understanding the Construction of Aesthetic Value”, in Kjerstin Aukrust (ed.): Assigning Cultural Values, Frankfurt am Main: Peter Lang 2013
Franco Moretti: “Conjectures on World Literature”
Franco Moretti: “Network Theory, Plot Analysis”
Theodor W. Adorno: ”The Truth About Hedda Gabler”, in Adorno: Minima Moralia
Christopher Balme, "The Cambridge Introduction to Theatre Studies" (2008), chapters 2, 3 and in particular 7 and 8
Erika Fischer-Lichte, "The Routledge Introduction to Theatre and Performance Studies" (2014), chapter 3, and in particular 4 and 5, and also 7.
Mark Sandberg: Ibsen’s Houses, Chapter 3, “Home and House” (p. 85-130)
Marit Aalen: “Stray Thoughts – Seeking Home: Henrik Ibsen’s Peer Gynt read in light of Wilfred Bion’s Ideas”, The International Journal of Psychoanalysis 2015
Henrik Ibsen: A Doll’s House
Henrik Ibsen: Ghosts
Henrik Ibsen: Hedda Gabler