and New Approaches to

Edited by Michael Robinson and Sven Hakon Rossel

Edition Praesens Wien 1999 7 Contents

Foreword 11

Preface 13

Lotta Gavel Adams The 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: from to Contemporary Performance 101 Brigitte Marschall Higher States of Consciousness in August Strindberg's 'Inferno ' 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 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 151

Hannelore Rodlauer Reads August Strindberg 161

Nina Solomin August Strindberg's Hostility Towards - 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 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 in 221

Egil Tornqvist Screening August Strindberg's : Meaning and Style 233

Margareta Wirmark Directs August Strindberg's The Crown Bride at Malmo Stadsteater 1952 243

Index of Titles and Personal Names 255