Nietzschean Variations: Politics, Interest, and Education in Ibsen's An Enemy of the People
Henrik Ibsen’s An Enemy of the People (1882) has had an unusual reception. Following A Doll’s House (1879) andGhosts (1881), plays that were scandalized upon performance only to be counted, relatively soon, among Ibsen’s most important works, An Enemy of the Peoplewas caught up by history in a different way. While the play has, no doubt, enjoyed bouts of popularity – including the many stagings that followed in thewake of its publication – late twentieth-centurycritics have worried about the political implications of Dr. Stockmann’s elitism and sometimes even compared it to the rhetoric of the later Nationalist Socialistmovement inGermany (Sage 2006, 3–5, 310–311; Ferguson 1996, 280ff ). The kind of elitist sentiments Dr. Stockmann airs inAn Enemy of the People are often associated with the teaching of Friedrich Nietzsche. Nietzsche’s work was much debated and discussed in Scandinavia when Ibsen was working on the play. Thus, critics have emphasized how Ibsen’s play resonates with a kind of aristocratic pathos that is not unlike the onewe find inwork of theGerman philosopher.While such a reading was prefigured in an essay by Anathon Aall at the beginning of the Twentieth Century, we findmore recent versions of the argument in works by Noreng (1969), de Figueiredo (2007) and Kittang (2005). In his reading ofAn Enemy of the People, Kittang speaks Ibsen Studies, 2014 Vol. 14, No. 2, 109–135, http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/15021866.2014.1000659
Nietzsche, life as literature
Introduction Part I. The World 1. The Most Multifarious Art of Style 2. Untruth as a Condition of Life 3. A Thing Is the Sum of Its Effects 4. Nature against Something That Is Also Nature Part II. The Self 5. This Life--Your Eternal Life 6. How One Becomes What One Is 7. Beyond Good and Evil A Note on Texts and Translations Notes Index
Women writers of traditional china :an anthology of poetry and criticism
Editorial conventions Abbreviations Maps Introduction: genealogy and titles of the female poet Part I. Poetry: 1. From ancient times to the six dynasties (222-589) 2. Tang (618-907) and five dynasties (907-60) 3. Song dynasty (960-1279 4. Yuan dynasty (1264-1368) 5. Ming dynasty (1368-1644 6. Qing dynasty (1644-1911) Part II. Criticism: 7. Female critics and poets 8. Male critics and poets Appendixes Notes Bibliography Index of names.