Text and Supertext in Ibsen's Drama

by Brian Johnston

Book Overview

Brian Johnston's approach to Ibsen, now well known, is unlike any other. Johnston sees Ibsen's twelve realist plays as a single cyclical work, the "realist" method of which hides a much larger poetic intention than has previously been suspected. He believes that the cycle constitutes one of the major works of the European imagination, comparable in scale to Goethe or Dante. And he has shown Ibsen to be the heir to Romantic and Hegelian art and...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 027102724X
• ISBN13: 9780271027241
• Release Date: September 1989
• Publisher: Penn State University Press
• Length: 308 Pages
• Weight: 1.00 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.0" x 9.0"