10th INTERNATIONAL
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2003 International Ibsen Conference
The following include 39 of the 75 papers (and one mock-musical)
which were presented at the 10th International Ibsen Conference.
We hope to publish a printed version of the complete “Proceedings”
in 2004. The web site will be updated
to indicate this.
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TABLE OF CONTENTS:
Joan Templeton: "Welcome
Address"
PLENARY SPEECHES:
Eric Bentley: “The Hero as Playwright:
A Talk” (Copyright Eric Bentley 2003)
Marvin Carlson: " 'Unser
Ibsen': Ibsen on the Contemporary German Stage” (Copyright Marvin Carlson
2003)
Inga-Stina Ewbank: “Reading
Ibsen’s Signs: Ambivalence on Page and Stage” (Copyright Inga-Stina Ewbank,
2003)
IBSEN IN HIS TIME:
Helge Rønning (The University of Oslo):
. . . den frisinnede uafhængige
presse foran mig, - og den kompakte majoritet bag
mig’: The Image of the Press in the Works
of Ibsen and his Contemporaries”
Kjetil Havnevik (The University
of Oslo): “Ibsen
and the Gesamtkunstwerk”
Fredrik Engelstad (The Institute for Social Research,
Oslo): “Ibsen
and Democracy”
IBSEN AND LANDSCAPE:
Amy Strahler Holzapfel (Yale
University): “Smashing
the Whole to Smithereens: Ibsen’s Seismic Landscape”
Branislav Jakovljecic (New York
University): “From
Brand to Pillars of Society: Ibsen and the French Geological Movement”
Victor Castellani (The University
of Denver): “Not
Vertically Challenged: Ups and Downs in the Last Plays”
ISSUES IN THE EARLY PLAYS:
Norman Rhodes (Pratt Institute):
“Brand: An Achilles of the Spirit”
Chengzhou He (The University
of Nanjing): “Peer
Gynt, Ah Q and the Disappearing Self”
Trond Woxen (The Scandinavian Theater Company, Los
Angeles): “Will the real
Peer Gynt please Stand Up?”
IBSEN’S DRAMATURGY:
Atle Kittang (The University of Bergen): “Ibsen’s
End Games: The Final Scenes in Brand
and When We Dead Awaken”
Ada Graf-Weiss
(The University of Surrey):
“Ibsen and Meta-Theatre”
NORA’S SISTERS:
Aimin Chen (Nanjing
Normal University):
“Nora: An Ideal for Chinese Women”
Ahmed Ahsanuzzaman (Khulna University,
Bangladesh): “No
Nora’s in Popular Bangla Literature”
Eileen Hoare (Macquarie University,
Australia): “A Doll House in Australia”
Rochelle Wright (The University
of Illinois): “Darius Mehrju’i’s Sara:
A Doll House Through an Iranian
Lens”
IBSEN AND THE BIBLE:
Arnbjørn
Jacobsen (Independent Scholar): “ `To
Waste One’s Life’: Biblical Expressions in Ibsen’s Dramas of Contemporary
Life”
Paul Baxter (Independent Scholar): "The
Master Builder: Biblical Allusion and the Problem of Succession"
IBSEN AND MODERN BRITISH
DRAMATISTS:
Ibrahim Yerebakan (Ataturk
University): “Ibsen’s
Importance to Harold Pinter”
Rebecca Cameron (The University
of Saskatchewan) “Ibsen
and British Women Dramatists”
Mehmet Takkac (Ataturk
University): “A Doll House and Tom Stoppard’s The
Real Thing”
MOTHERS, FATHERS,
DAUGHTERS:
Ellen Hartmann (The University of Oslo): “Ibsen’s
Motherless Women”
Yan Liu (The University
of Hong Kong): “Many
Mothers in Ibsen: Toward an Irigarayan Reading”
Krisztina Galcoczi (The University
of Budapest): "Absent
Fathers, Obedient Daughters: Hedda and her Sisters"
ISSUES IN THE CONTEMPORARY
DRAMAS:
Knut Brynhildsvoll (The University of Oslo): "Iakovos Kambanelis'
play Ibsenland: A Ghosts Paraphrase"
Asbjørn
Aarseth (The University of Bergen):
“The Greenhouse, the Zoo, and the Aquarium: Allegories
of Inauthenticity”
Gudleiv Bø
(The University of Oslo):
“Individualism and Love”
IBSEN/STRINDBERG/BERGMAN:
Barbara Lide (Michigan
Technological University):
“Strindberg’s Ibsen”
Charlotte Gavel-Adams (The University of Washington): “ ‘When the
scales fall from our eyes and we see Das Ding an sich’: Ibsen’s Ghosts
and Strindberg’s Ghost Sonata –
through the lens of Ingmar Bergman”
THE PLAYWRIGHT AS THINKER:
Tom Eide (The University of Oslo): “Ibsen’s
Ethical Method”
IBSEN IN PERFORMANCE:
John Andreasen (Aarhus
University): “Revisiting
Nora in 2003: Scenographies for A Doll House”
Tove Ilsaas (The University
of Oslo): “Teaching
Ibsen Through Performance”
ISSUES IN THE LATE PLAYS
Sanda Tomescu Baciu (The University
of Babes-Bolyai, Romania):
“The Myth of The Master
Builder”
Mitsuyi Mori (Seijo
University, Tokyo):
“A Japanese View of the Double Suicide in Rosmersholm”
Thomas Van Laan (Rutgers
University): “Conflicting
Perspectives in the Final Episode of Rosmersholm”
IBSEN IN ALBANIA:
Kudret Velca (The University of Tirana): “Ibsen’s
Reception in Albania”
RESEARCH
RESOURCES
ON IBSEN.NET
Jens-Morten Hanssen (The Ibsen
Center, The
University of Oslo)
HENRIK:
THE MUSICAL! -OR HEDDA GET YOUR
GUN! (Songs for an Ibsen mock musical)
Arne Lunde (The University
of California, Berkeley)
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