Expressionism and Modernism New Approaches to August Strindberg
Edited by Michael Robinson and Sven Hakon Rossel
Edition Praesens Wien 1999 7 Contents
Foreword 11
Preface 13
Lotta Gavel Adams The Dance of Death I: The Hells of August Strindberg And Lars Noren - from Swedenborgian Vastation to Bourgeois Waste Land 17
Paul Austin August Strindberg, Sam Shepard, and the Expressionist Impulse 25
Friedrich Buchmayr August Strindberg and the Altered Perception of Modernism 33
Piotr Bukowski August Strindberg and the Expressionist Aesthetics of Par Lagerkvist 47
Harry G. Carlson Theme, Image and Style in August Strindberg's Expressionism 53
Barry Jacobs Expressionist Elements in August Strindberg's Charles the Twelfth 63
Hermann Keckeis August Strindberg and German Opera: Studies in the Transposition of the Genre of Strindberg's Plays in Operatic Dramaturgy - a Textual Analysis 79
Arturo Larcarti August Strindberg in the Periodicals of Austrian Expressionism 93
Barbara Lide Stations of Expressionism: The Great Highway from To Damascus to Contemporary Performance 101 Brigitte Marschall Higher States of Consciousness in August Strindberg's 'Inferno Dramas' 111
Christopher Joseph Mitchell Gender and Marriage Construction Across the 'Inferno': August Strindberg's The Father and The Dance of Death I 121
Jan Myrdal An Exemplary Phase Reversal: The Modernity of August Strindberg 129
UlfOlsson The Bloodstained Sign: The Problem of Expressivity in August Strindberg's Black Banners 139
Michael Robinson August Strindberg and Musical Expressionism in Vienna 151
Hannelore Rodlauer Franz Kafka Reads August Strindberg 161
Nina Solomin August Strindberg's Hostility Towards Jews - 1879-1882 175
Birgitta Steene August Strindberg, Modernism and the Swedish Cinema 185
Eszter Szalczer August Strindberg's Dramatic Expressionism and the Discourse of the Self 197
Grazyna Barbara Szewczyk August Strindberg's Influence on the Drama of German Expressionism 205
Agneta Taube The Pattern of Narrative Desire In August Strindberg's By the Open Sea 213 9
Karin Tidstrom Reception and Translation of August Strindberg's The Ghost Sonata in France 221
Egil Tornqvist Screening August Strindberg's A Dream Play: Meaning and Style 233
Margareta Wirmark Ingmar Bergman Directs August Strindberg's The Crown Bride at Malmo Stadsteater 1952 243
Index of Titles and Personal Names 255