New perspectives in Ibsen Studies 2020
Adaptations
Digital Humanities
Ibsen's Houses
Forgery
Methodological shifts
Tools
traditional --> digital
Potential to change our understanding of Ibsen
Place and space affects characters throughout different plays and in different ways.
qualitative --> quantitative (close/distant reading)
textual --> digital
Forgery as a mirror of society, reflects problems and interpretations of literature in contemporary society
Unfamiliar in the "familiar": the uncanny and un-belongness to one's own house
Forgery as a act of reception, forger as a middleman between the work and the reader
IbsenStage
Visualising data
they say something on the "phenomenon" Ibsen, not Ibsen hmself
Network analysis
Cartography
Soft power
Graphs
Trees
Software/Computational Skills
SQL queries (extracting data - step 1)
GIS (maps)
click to edit
Difference between house and home
Rosmersholm:
Visone (networks)
Enemy of the People
A Doll's House
Forgery as a form of soft power?
House enviroment as a whole character by itself
Challenges
Methodological challenge with close and distant readings/qualitative and quantitative
Adaptation as a form of soft power
Ibsen as a "Norwegian" good to be exported
"house" over "doll"
modern unhomely rather than a traditional
understanding of the uncanny
targets the entire familial, social,
and architectural systems
Ibsen as a "Master Razer": according to the critic he was destroying instead of building social pillars
Gatas Gynt
Value of inclusion - theatre as a social act
The truth about Beata's death that deataches Rosmer from his place and, subsequently, Rebecca
Religious and secular issues
Tenacity
Method: close reading, stage analysis and reception
More complicated than a traditional theoretical framework
The white horse: a
portent of death
Sensitivity of data/digital archives