Bøger af Joan Templeton

Explores the interrelationships between two Norwegian giants of European modernism. Edvard Munch's work stretches from portraits of Ibsen to innovative depictions of scenes from Ibsen's plays such as Ghosts and Peer Gynt to set designs. Joan Templeton is professor of English at Long Island University and president of the Ibsen Society of America. She is the author of Ibsen's Women.

Dismantling the notion that Shaw distorted Ibsen to promote his own view of the world, and establishing Shaw's initial interest in Ibsen as the poet of Peer Gynt, it chronicles Shaw's important role in the London Ibsen campaign and exposes the falsity of the tradition that Shaw branded Ibsen as a socialist.

Munch´s Ibsen is the first comprehensive scholarly and critical account of the relation between the two great Norwegian modernists Edvard Munch and Henrik Ibsen. Drawing on Norwegian social and cultural history, Munch´s extensive unpublished writings, and the interlocking careers of Munch and Ibsen, Joan Templeton demonstrates Ibsen´s primordial importance for Munch as a pioneering modernist voice. Munch made more than 400 illustrations of Ibsen´s plays, one of the greatest homages a painter ever made to a writer. In addition to locating these illustrations in Munch´s life and work as a whole, Templeton also studies them as depictions of Ibsen´s plays.Joan Templeton is Professor of English and comparative literature at Long Island University. Author of Ibsen´s Women.