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.