EUR  â¬142.80EUR  â¬119.00 excl. VAT
August Strindberg and the Other
New Critical Approaches
Series:
The recent sesquicentennial of August Strindberg's (1849-1912) birth was an appropriate occasion for investigating the role of this towering figure in Nordic literature. By Eugene O'Neill once labeled the most modern of moderns, Strindberg the playwright has commanded a prophetic influence on 20th century drama and theater, and his voluminous production in several other genres continues to constitute a watershed and some of the highpoints in Swedish letters.
Yet, Strindberg remains as controversial today as he was in his lifetime. The nature and degree of his modernity are still under discussion, and so is the impact of his remarkable genre-proliferation and border-transgressing Swedishness. Once considered too unruly for the pillars of society and too pious for the radicals, his artistic and existential points of gravity remain in critical dispute. Generally subjected to traditional modes of inquiry, Strindberg's complexity calls for new critical approaches.
Strindberg and the Other brings together scholars, younger and older, from Scandinavia and abroad, who either venture such new approaches or engage their practitioners in fruitful dialogue. Especially promising among the volume's methodological and theoretical propositions is the notion of the 'other' and 'otherness.' Indeed, the image of August Strindberg himself is quite an-other at this millennium than it was just half a century ago.
Yet, Strindberg remains as controversial today as he was in his lifetime. The nature and degree of his modernity are still under discussion, and so is the impact of his remarkable genre-proliferation and border-transgressing Swedishness. Once considered too unruly for the pillars of society and too pious for the radicals, his artistic and existential points of gravity remain in critical dispute. Generally subjected to traditional modes of inquiry, Strindberg's complexity calls for new critical approaches.
Strindberg and the Other brings together scholars, younger and older, from Scandinavia and abroad, who either venture such new approaches or engage their practitioners in fruitful dialogue. Especially promising among the volume's methodological and theoretical propositions is the notion of the 'other' and 'otherness.' Indeed, the image of August Strindberg himself is quite an-other at this millennium than it was just half a century ago.
Foreword
Evert SPRINCHORN: Strindberg among the Prophets
Göran STOCKENSTRÃM: The World that Strindberg Found: Deciphering the Palimpsest of Nature
Freddie ROKEM: Secret Codes: Strindberg and the Dead Languages
Jon M. BERRY: The Alchemical Regeneration of Souls in Strindbergâs To Damascus, III
Ingvar HOLM: On the Road to Damascus: Strindberg as a Painter
Harry G. CARLSON: Landscape as Mediator in Strindbergâs Search for the Other
Ann-Charlotte GAVEL ADAMS: Strindberg and Paris 1894-98: Barbarian, Initiate, and Self
Eszter SZALCZER: Theosophy as Catalyst: Strindbergâs Theater of the Self and the Other
Ulf OLSSON: Going Crazy: Strindberg and the Construction of Literary Madness
Per STOUNBJERG: âTo Eat or Be Eaten â that Is the Questionâ: Incorporations and Rejections of the Other in Strindbergâs Autobiographical Prose Writings
Poul HOUE: Writing with a Vengeance: A Madmanâs Defence â an âOthernessâ Called Suspense
Gunnar SYRÃHN: The Phenomenon of âOthernessâ in P.O. Enquistâs View of Strindberg in The Night of the Tribades
Poul HOUE: Afterword: An-Other August Strindberg
Index
Evert SPRINCHORN: Strindberg among the Prophets
Göran STOCKENSTRÃM: The World that Strindberg Found: Deciphering the Palimpsest of Nature
Freddie ROKEM: Secret Codes: Strindberg and the Dead Languages
Jon M. BERRY: The Alchemical Regeneration of Souls in Strindbergâs To Damascus, III
Ingvar HOLM: On the Road to Damascus: Strindberg as a Painter
Harry G. CARLSON: Landscape as Mediator in Strindbergâs Search for the Other
Ann-Charlotte GAVEL ADAMS: Strindberg and Paris 1894-98: Barbarian, Initiate, and Self
Eszter SZALCZER: Theosophy as Catalyst: Strindbergâs Theater of the Self and the Other
Ulf OLSSON: Going Crazy: Strindberg and the Construction of Literary Madness
Per STOUNBJERG: âTo Eat or Be Eaten â that Is the Questionâ: Incorporations and Rejections of the Other in Strindbergâs Autobiographical Prose Writings
Poul HOUE: Writing with a Vengeance: A Madmanâs Defence â an âOthernessâ Called Suspense
Gunnar SYRÃHN: The Phenomenon of âOthernessâ in P.O. Enquistâs View of Strindberg in The Night of the Tribades
Poul HOUE: Afterword: An-Other August Strindberg
Index