Ibsen and the Irish Revival
By: Irina Ruppo Malone
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Published: 2010
Place of publication: Basingstoke
Language: eng
Number of pages: 223
ISBN-13: 9780230231993
Subjects: English literature; Theater; Literature and society; Intellectual life; History and criticism; Influence; Literatur; Appreciation; Rezeption; Irische Renaissance; Irish authors; History
Description: This book examines Henrik Ibsen's influence on the literature of the Irish Revival and the reception of his plays in turn-of-the-twentieth-century Dublin. It highlights the international dimension of the key movement in the development of Ireland's national consciousness. Challenging the accepted view that the Irish Revival was rooted in the rejection of Ibsen, this project demonstrates Ibsen's importance for the development of the movement from a naively idealistic phenomenon to a self-reflexive, humanist version of modernism. Drawing on press reviews, diaries, and other unpublished archival material, Ibsen and the Irish Revival offers a comprehensive account of Ibsen's stage history in Dublin alongside a chronological analysis of his influence on Irish authors, in particular W.B. Yeats, J.M. Synge, Lennox Robinson, James Joyce, George Moore, and Sean O'Casey.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 207-214) and index.
Table of contents: title: Dublin's first introduction to Ibsen : the realist plays; title: Ibsen and the early abbey tradition; title: Irish nationalism and the ideology of Ibsen's plays; title: Beyond realism : the reception of Ibsen's "symbolist" plays; title: Ibsen out of date?; title: A farewell to the revival and the beginnings of Irish modernism; title: Epilogue. Dreams of resurrection : Ibsen and George Moore.