Helland in retrospect

Giuliano D’Amico; Ståle Dingstad; Ellen Rees; Frode Helland; John David Crosby; Arnfinn Åslund

Helland in retrospect

Authors

Giuliano D’Amico (ed)

Universitetet i Oslo

Ståle Dingstad (ed)

Universitetet i Oslo

Ellen Rees (ed)

Universitetet i Oslo

Keywords:

Dramatic Irony, Interpretation, Birth of Modernism, Idealism as Problem and Necessity

Synopsis

This volume contains ten newly translated scholarly works by the esteemed Ibsen scholar Frode Helland on the occasion of his sixtieth birthday. The essays are arranged in roughly chronological order and accompanied by brief introductions. In reflecting over Helland’s many contributions to the field, it struck the editors that there is much value in his early scholarship, but that because most of this was written in Norwegian, it has not reached the international readership it deserves. His scholarly production spans many phases, including an interest in the ironic, the aesthetic, the melancholic, the political, and the global Ibsen.

Chapters

Preface

Giuliano D’Amico, Ståle Dingstad, Ellen Rees
Irony and Experience in Hedda Gabler

Frode Helland
This Is Not a Pipe

Frode Helland, Arnfinn Åslund
A Reply from the Doctoral Candidate

Frode Helland
On Peer Gynt, with a Constant Focus on the Concept of Dramatic Irony

Frode Helland
Henrik Ibsen and Politics: A Doll’s House

Frode Helland
Ibsen and Politics: Ghosts

Frode Helland
The Emperor of Interpretation

Frode Helland
The Birth of Modernism: Henrik Ibsen

Frode Helland
Idealism as Problem and Necessity

Frode Helland
After Ibsen?

Frode Helland
Sources for Frode Helland’s Original Essays

Frode Helland
Works Cited

Frode Helland

Author Biographies

Giuliano D’Amico, Universitetet i Oslo

Jeg forsker på nordisk litteratur fra 1800 og frem til i dag, med hovedfokus på Henrik Ibsens forfatterskap.

Frode Helland, Universitetet i Oslo

Dekan - Det humanistiske fakultet

Født 1964 i Oslo. Cand.Philol. ved UiO 1992 med fagene nordisk, filosofi og sosiologi. Dr.art. i nordisk litteraturvitenskap ved UiO i 1998. Førsteamanuensis og senere professor (fra 2001) i nordisk litteraturvitenskap ved NTNU 1997-2004. Professor II, NTNU 2004-2007. Professor i nordisk litteraturvitenskap, UiO siden 2004.

John David Crosby, NTNU

PhD Candidate Department of Language and Literature Faculty of Humanities