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Henrik Ibsen's plays came at a pivotal moment in late nineteenth-century European modernity. They engaged his public through a strategic use of metaphors of house and home, which resonated with experiences of displacement, philosophical homelessness, and exile. The most famous of these metaphors - embodied by the titles of his plays A Doll's House, Pillars of Society, and The Master Builder - have entered into mainstream Western thought in ways that mask the full force of the reversals Ibsen performed on notions of architectural space. Analyzing literary and performance-related reception materials from Ibsen's lifetime, Mark B. Sandberg concentrates on the interior dramas of the playwright's prose-play cycle, drawing also on his selected poems. Sandberg's close readings of texts and cultural commentary present the immediate context of the plays, provide new perspectives on them for international readers, and reveal how Ibsen became a master of the modern uncanny.

Space (Architecture) in literature. --- Metaphor in literature. --- Ibsen, Henrik, --- イプセン, ヘンリック --- Criticism and interpretation.

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In the late nineteenth century, Scandinavian urban dwellers developed a passion for a new, utterly modern sort of visual spectacle: objects and effigies brought to life in astonishingly detailed, realistic scenes. The period 1880-1910 was the popular high point of mannequin display in Europe. Living Pictures, Missing Persons explores this phenomenon as it unfolded with the rise of wax museums and folk museums in the largest cities of Denmark, Sweden, and Norway. Mark Sandberg asks: Why did modernity generate a cultural fascination with the idea of effigy? He shows that the idea of effigy is also a portal to understanding other aspects of visual entertainment in that period, including the widespread interest in illusionistic scenes and tableaux, in the "portability" of sights, spaces, and entire milieus. Sandberg investigates this transformation of visual culture outside the usual test cases of the largest European metropolises. He argues that Scandinavian spectators desired an unusual degree of authenticity--a cultural preference for naturalism that made its way beyond theater to popular forms of museum display. The Scandinavian wax museums and folk-ethnographic displays of the era helped pre-cinematic spectators work out the social implications of both voyeuristic and immersive display techniques. This careful study thus anticipates some of the central paradoxes of twentieth-century visual culture--but in a time when the mannequin and the physical relic reigned supreme, and in a place where the contrast between tradition and modernity was a high-stakes game.

Ethnological museums and collections --- Popular culture --- Waxworks --- History --- Scandinavia --- Intellectual life --- A Severed Head. --- Agnosticism. --- Anachronism. --- Anthropomorphism. --- Antique furniture. --- Archive. --- Assassination. --- Autobiography. --- Cataclysm (Dragonlance). --- Cemetery. --- Chamber of Horrors (Madame Tussauds). --- City Museum. --- Complexity. --- Crone. --- Cultural history. --- Curator. --- Deal with the Devil. --- Death mask. --- Death. --- Decapitation. --- Decoy effect. --- Degenerative disease. --- Desecration. --- Diorama. --- Dismemberment. --- Distrust. --- Documenta. --- Double consciousness. --- Dreyfus affair. --- Entrapment. --- Ephemerality. --- Exoticism. --- False evidence. --- First Sorrow. --- Folk museum. --- From Time Immemorial. --- Genre painting. --- Grandparent. --- Grave robbery. --- His Family. --- Historical Association. --- Historical trauma. --- Horror film. --- Hyperreality. --- Illustration. --- Impossibility. --- Infidel. --- Jonathan Crary. --- Karen Blixen. --- Leprosy. --- Linda Williams (film scholar). --- Mail. --- Mannequin. --- Memoir. --- Michael Dummett. --- Michael Fried. --- Mock execution. --- Modernity. --- Morgue. --- Most Secret. --- Museology. --- Museum. --- Mystery of the Wax Museum. --- Neglect. --- Neoromanticism (music). --- New Thought. --- Newspaper. --- Night of the Living Dead. --- Nightmare in Wax. --- Nordic Museum. --- Obsolescence. --- On Cinema. --- Orientalism. --- P. T. Barnum. --- Paul Leni. --- Personal History. --- Portrait photography. --- Random House. --- Religion. --- Romanticism. --- Schocken Books. --- Scientific skepticism. --- Secret photography. --- Semiotics. --- Serial killer. --- Skansen. --- Smithsonian Institution. --- Stockholm City Museum. --- Suicide. --- Superiority (short story). --- Taxidermy. --- The Last Minute. --- The Philosopher. --- Theft. --- Thomas Kuhn. --- Underdevelopment. --- Viewing (funeral). --- Vincent Price. --- Wax museum. --- Wear and tear.

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Thematology --- Ibsen, Henrik

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Nordic Literature: A comparative history is a multi-volume comparative analysis of the literature of the Nordic region. Bringing together the literature of Finland, continental Scandinavia (Sweden, Norway, Denmark, and Sápmi), and the insular region (Iceland, Greenland, and the Faroe Islands), each volume of this three-volume project adopts a new frame through which one can recognize and analyze significant clusters of literary practice. This first volume, Spatial nodes, devotes its attention to the changing literary figurations of space by Nordic writers from medieval to contemporary times. Organized around the depiction of various “scapes” and spatial practices at home and abroad, this approach to Nordic literature stretches existing notions of temporally linear, nationally centered literary history and allows questions of internal regional similarities and differences to emerge more strongly. The productive historical contingency of the “North” as a literary space becomes clear in this close analysis of its literary texts and practices.

Scandinavische literatuur --- Geschiedenis en kritiek