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<p><p><i>Ibsen&#8217;s Drama&#58; Right Action and Tragic Joy</i> argues that in his late plays, Ibsen struggled with and finally repudiated the Aristotelian ideas of reality and change that held sway over the earlier part of his career, and more generally over nineteenth century drama and culture. The first chapter analyzes Aristotle&#8217;s <i>Poetics,</i> which centers on the classical relation of catharsis, rational agency, and intelligible change in human affairs. The second chapter presents Nietzsche&#8217;s transformation of those topics into a modernist poetics and a modernist agenda for living. The rest of the book analyzes <i>Ghosts, Rosmersholm,</i> and <i>The Master Builder</i> and relates Ibsen&#8217;s formal, intellectual, and cultural innovations in these plays to Nietzsche&#8217;s assault on the Aristotelian humanism that Victorian Europe valued so highly.<p></p><h3>Booknews</h3><p>This is the paperbound edition of a 1996 work that situates Henrik Ibsen and his plays within the sweep of western culture. The author teaches at Harvard University and is editor of </The Boston Book Review/>. After study of Aristotle's Poetics and Nietzsche's impact, Theoharis applies hi

Author

Theoharis Constantine Theoharis

Publisher

Palgrave Macmillan US

Published

1999

Language

EN

ISBN

9780333775233

Subjects

Literary Fiction, Humanities