Author: Eric O. Johannesson
Publisher: University of California Press
ISBN: 0520336232
Category : Literary Collections
Languages : en
Pages : 336
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This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press’s mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1968.
Author: Sue Prideaux
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780300198065
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 352
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The author looks at the life of the playwright best known for the work Miss Julie, paying special attention to how real life inspired the ideas, premises and characters of his plays and other literary works.
Author: Michael Robinson
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1139827448
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 227
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August Strindberg is one of the most enduring of nineteenth-century dramatists, and is also an internationally recognised novelist, autobiographer, and painter. This Companion presents contributions by leading international scholars on different aspects of Strindberg's highly colourful life and work. The essays focus primarily on his most celebrated plays; these include the Naturalist Dramas, The Father and Miss Julie; the experimental dramas with which he created a true modernist theatre – To Damascus and A Dream Play; and the Chamber Plays of 1908 which, like so much of his work, exerted a powerful influence on much later twentieth-century drama. His plays are contextualised for what they contribute both to the history of drama and developments in theatre practice, and other essays clarify the enormous importance to these dramas of his other work, most notably the autobiographical novel Inferno, and his lifelong interest in science, the occult, sexual politics, and the visual arts.
Author: August Strindberg
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 288
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Author: Björn Meidal
Publisher: Max Strom
ISBN: 9789171262486
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 0
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Presents a comprehensive photographic biography of Sweden's influential writer and playwright. This title offers more than 500 contemporary photographs from Strindberg's world Stockholm, the archipelago, Berlin, Paris and all the other places that have contributed in shaping the world-renowned playwright and writer.
Author: August Strindberg
Publisher: BoD - Books on Demand
ISBN: 9180804721
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 226
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"I'll tell you what, Ygberg, I believe one has to be very unscrupulous if one wants to get on in the world." That's how The Red Room could be summarised through one of its sentences. Through a number of cultural workers Strindberg asks the question of how life should be lived. As a young person, you can pretend to be an ardent idealist; as an older, somewhat sober person, you can come to realise that what you from the beginning thought to be idealistic may not really be. Through its straightforward language The Red Room (1879) is often called the first modern novel in Swedish. It constitutes a representation of Stockholm in the 1870s and is known for its depictions of the urban environment as well as its satire. The book is an attempt to stand by the lower classes by humorously attacking the hypocrisy of the higher classes. The Red Room was described as dirt by contemporary critics, but it was an immediate success. This edition of The Red Room constitutes the first novel in the cluster text style, which could be 20 percent better than ordinary texts, and is intended to function as a kind of survey for how we look at text, reading and book design. This book, in Swedish, was made as an entry for Svensk bokkonst, which every year rewards good examples of book design. The winners get to participate in Stiftung Buchkunt's Best Book Design from all over the World which in German is called Schönste Bücher aus aller Welt. This difference captures an important gap. Book design has long been about designing beautiful books. Now we'll see how Svensk bokkonst and possibly Stiftung Buchkunst see this. What do you think? Should we read cluster texts? You will get an answer to that question by reading this edition of The Red Room. PLEASE NOTE that the text in this book, i.e. cluster text, cannot be reflown and therefore needs to be read on tablets/screens at least 13 centimetres wide, which can handle line lengths of 95 characters (i.e. smaller screens are not suitable).
Author: August Strindberg
Publisher: The Floating Press
ISBN: 1775450406
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 417
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Swedish writer August Strinberg played a major role in introducing a more modernist sensibility into his native country's literature, producing several major novels and plays that are still regarded as some of the most significant works of twentieth-century Swedish literature. The Road to Damascus is a dramatic trilogy that broke new ground in stagecraft and characterization, touching on complex themes of spirituality and selfhood in the process.
Author: August Strindberg
Publisher: Courier Corporation
ISBN: 0486111970
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 65
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One of the greatest classics of modern theater concerns a willful young aristocrat's seduction of her father's valet during a Midsummer's Eve celebration. Complete with Strindberg's highly-regarded critical preface.
Author: Olof Lagercrantz
Publisher: Farrar Straus & Giroux
ISBN: 9780374519414
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 400
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Argues that Strindberg intentionally directed his controversial emotional life to his art and purposely created personal chaos in order to generate his creative inspiration
Author: August Strindberg
Publisher: Anchor
ISBN:
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 338
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The Father; Miss Julie; The Stronger; Easter; A Dream Play; The Ghost Sonata.
