Syllabus/achievement requirements

Texts:

Drama

Peer Gynt

John Gabriel Borkman

Poems:

Miner [Bergmanden]

On the Moors [Paa Vidderne]

Applications:

To the Norwegian Government, August 6,1860

To the Norwegian Government, March 10, 1863

Letters:

To Bj?rnstjerne Bj?rnson, September 12, 1865

To Frederik Hegel, August 22, 1866

To Frederik Hegel, January 6, 1867

To Frederik Hegel, March 8, 1867

To Clemens Peterseen, March 9, 1867

To Frederik Hegel, August 8, 1867

To Bj?rnstjerne Bj?rnson, December 9, 1867/December 10,1867

To Bj?rnstjerne Bj?rnson, December 28, 1867

To Georg Brandes, December 20, 1870

To Georg Brandes, February 17, 1871

To Georg Brandes, April 4, 1872 To Georg Brandes, September 21, 1882

Speech:

Speech to the Norwegian Students, Christiania, September 10, 1874

Resources:

Poems

Northam, John: Ibsen's poems, Oslo: Norwegian University Press 1986

Applications, letters and speech

Sprichorn, Evert (ed): IBSEN, Letters and Speeches, Clinton, Mass: Macgibbon & Kee 1965

Biographies

Koht, Halvdan: Life of Ibsen, New York : B. Blom, 1971 [Henrik Ibsen : eit diktarliv]

Meyer, Michael: Ibsen : a biography, Garden City, N.Y. : Doubleday 1971 [Henrik Ibsen: en biografi]

Meyer, Michael: Ibsen : a biography; abridged by the author, Harmondsworth, Middlesex: Penguin Book 1985

Ferguson, Robert: Henrik Ibsen : a new biography, London : Richard Cohen Books, 1996 [Henrik Ibsen : mellom evne og higen]

Perspectives

Moi, Toril: Henrik Ibsen and the birth of modernism: art, theater, philosophy,Oxford : Oxford University Press 2006 [Ibsens modernisme]

Articles

Haakonsen, Daniel: "The play-within-in-the-play" in Ibsen's realistic drama” in:Contemporary approaches to Ibsen, Vol 2, 1971, 101-117

Aarseth, Asbj?rn: ”The Ibsen Drama Exposed to the Freedom of the Theatre” in: Heed, Sven ?ke and Roland Lysell (eds): Ibsen in the Theatre, Stockholm: STUTS 2009, 19-26

Nygaard, Jon: ”Did Wilson Come to Norway to Stage Ibsen 30 Years Too Late – or 30 Years Too Early?” in: Heed, Sven ?ke and Roland Lysell (eds): Ibsen in the Theatre, Stockholm: STUTS 2009, 77-84

Fuls?s, Narve: ”Ibsen Misrepresented: Canonization, Oblivion, and the Need for History” in:Ibsen Studies 1/2011, 3-20

Hyldig, Keld: ”TwentyYears With The International Ibsen Festival” in:Ibsen Studies 1/2011, 21-50

Andersen, Anette Storli: ”In the Right Place, at the Right Time: Why Ibsen Worked in the Theatre for 13 Years – and then Left it for Good” in: Ibsen Studies 2/2011, 84-116

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