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Henrik Ibsen’s PEER GYNT in a new version
No full textABSTRACT: This version of Peer Gynt is one of many adaptations of Ibsen’s original “dramatic poem” into a stage presentation of the archetypal journey, spread over a lifetime, of a
man in search of himself. Ibsen was the first to transform his lesedrama into a theatre piece (by omitting one entire act and commissioning a musical score
from Grieg to cover the gaps). There have since been numerous modern innovations of
Peer Gynt, each with its own emphasis. This current version attempts to reconcile Ibsen’s Norwegian
concerns and mythology with a series of Canadian references, and the challenges facing
the translator/adaptor and his solutions are recorded in the introduction to the play.
It has been staged in Canada and Norway (the last act only) and won Vancouver’s Jessie
Award for the best production of 2006
“Tell Ye Your Children…”: The Twisted Swedish Road to Holocaust Recognition
Get PDFABSTRACT: From a historical perspective, this article analyzes the dramatic political
process in the 1990s when modern Sweden left its traditional dissociation from historical
orientations by entering into a European context in which the Second World War and
the Holocaust were crucial historical landmarks. The political campaign Living History must be understood
in terms of recent processes of both nationalization and Europeanization of history.
As a conclusion, three problems of the politics of history are discussed: a competing
European historical focus on communist crimes against humanity, a simplistic and reductionist
political use of Holocaust history, and a difficult but necessary discussion of the
potential lessons of history in general, and of Holocaust history in particular
Trees as a Central Theme in Norse Mythology and Culture: An Archaeological Perspective
Get PDFABSTRACT: This article, the inaugural winner of the journal’s Gurli Aagaard Woods
Undergraduate
Publication Award, combines the analysis of ancient literature with an archaeological
approach in
an effort to further interpret the presence and significance of trees in medieval
Scandinavian culture.
The analysis of textual references to trees such as Yggdrasill and Barnstokkr found
in the Norse
works Völuspá,
Grímnismál, Gylfaginning,
and Völsunga Saga, are combined with academic articles, juxtaposed with the examination of archaeological
sites at Fröso, Herresta, Bjarsgård, Österfärnebo, and Karmøy, and integrated with
modern Scandinavian attitudes to explore an interest in tree-human relationships,
literature, and archaeology in medieval Scandinavia
Torfi H. Tulinius. The Enigma of Egill: The Saga, the Viking Poet, and Snorri Sturluson.
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