A global doll's house : Ibsen and distant visions /: Ibsen and distant visions. (2016)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Julie Holledge, Jonathan Bollen, Frode Helland, Joanne Tompkins.
• Authors: Holledge, Julie, 1950-; Bollen, Jonathan; Helland, Frode, 1964-; Tompkins, Joanne, 1961-
• Contents: Acknowledgements; Contents; List of Figures; chapter 1: Introduction; Digital Humanities; Building on the Past; A Human Striving for Individual Freedom; Nora as Emergent Modern Female Subject; Theatrical Modernism and Aesthetics; The Et dukkehjem Data Set; Transmission and Adaptation; Notes; Part 1: Cultural Transmission; chapter 2: Mapping the Early Noras; Mapping the Trajectories of the Early Noras; Europe: The Starting Point; Going East; Homeward Bound; Going West; South America; East Asia; Mapping Audiences; Internal Maps; Alla Nazimova; Matsui Sumako; Janet Achurch and Eleanor Marx. Lan PingGabriela Zapolska; Eleonora Duse; Olga Chekhova; Breaking Social Convention; Nora and Women's Subjective Autonomy; Conclusion; Notes; chapter 3: 'Peddling' Et dukkehjem: The Role of the State; Pattern One: The Building of an Aesthetic Tradition; Pattern Two: The Transmission of a Tradition; Family Stories: Cultural Inheritance as Aesthetic Constraint; Pattern Three: Aesthetic Transmission; Unconscious Assumptions or Conscious Constraints; Pattern Four: A Doll Home in the Ibsen Industry; International Ibsen Festival; Ibsen Awards Programme; Nora's Sisters; Conclusion; Notes. Part II: AdaptationNotes; chapter 4: Adaptation at a Distance; Pattern One: The Dramaturgical Structures of Plot, Time, Space, and Genre; Temporal Structures; Spatial Constraints, Framing Devices, and Genres; Tokyo, Japan 2006; Blantyre, Malawi 2006; Copenhagen, Denmark 1879; Pattern Two: Character Interactions, Manipulations, and the Importance of Empathy; Character Interactions; Character Manipulations; The Importance of Empathy; Narrative Substitutions; Hesitations; Nora Leaves with Her Children; Tehran, Iran 1993; Awaka, Nigeria 2002; Lusaka, Zambia 2006; Conclusion; Notes. Chapter 5: Ibsen's Challenge: The Tarantella RehearsalEt dukkehjem's Physical Score; The Tarantella Tree Trunk; The Branch of Cuts and Substitutions; The Sub-Branch of Cultural and Religious Censorship; The Branch of Voyeuristic Pleasure; The Sub-Branch of the Female Gaze; The Branch of Transgressions; The Sub-Branch of Altered States; The Branch of Other Dancing Bodies; The Branch of Dolls; Conclusion; Notes; Conclusion; Distant Visions as a Methodology; Afterword; Bibliography; Index.
• Publisher Details: London : Palgrave Macmillan
• Publication Date: 2016
• Extent: 1 online resource (xiii, 233 pages), illustrations
• Subjects: 792.95; Literature; PERFORMING ARTS -- Theater -- General; Performing Arts -- General; Social Science -- General; Dance & other performing arts; Cultural studies; Performing arts; Language Arts & Disciplines -- Library & Information Science -- General; Literature: history & criticism; Electronic books; Stage history
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9781137438997; 1137438991
• Related ISBNs: 1137438983; 9781137438980
• Notes: Note: Includes bibliographical references (pages 205-224) and index.; Note: Online resource; title from PDF title page (EBSCO, viewed October 5, 2016).
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