Northern arts : the breakthrough of Scandinavian literature and art, from Ibsen to Bergman /
Arnold Weinstein.
- Princeton : Princeton University Press, 2008.
- xvii, 523 p. : ill. ; 25 cm.
Includes bibliographical references (p. [461]-505) and index.
1. Introduction -- 2. Power -- Speaking God: Kierkegaard and Lagerkvist -- The Play of Patriarchy: Ibsen and Strindberg -- Child's Play: The Cradle Song in Strindberg's The Fater -- Metamorphosis in Ibsen's Little Eyolf -- The Powers and the Self: Strindberg's Inferno and Gustafsson's Tennis Players -- 3. Boundary Smashing: Going through the Wall: Shakespeare, Strindberg, Josephson, Bergman -- the Child's Revenge: Kierkegaard, Ibsen, Lindgren, Cronqvist -- Hamsun's Hunger and Writing -- Stories of Fusion: Vesaas's The Ice Palace and Bergman's Persona -- 4. Graphing Power: Breakthrough, Time, and Fluxin Edvard Munch (the Cubist) -- The Case of Ernst Josephson -- Concluding the Book: Introducing Strindberg the Painter.