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Ecocriticism and Old Norse Studies: Nature and the Environment in Old Norse Literature and Culture
Reinhard Hennig / Emily Lethbridge / Michael Schulte (Hrsg.)
https://doi.org/10.1484/M.NAW-EB.5.132526
Ecocriticism and Old Norse Studies is the first anthology to combine environmental humanities approaches and the study of premodern Nordic literature and culture. The chapters gathered here present innovative research based on the most recent developments within ecologically informed literary and cultural studies. Covering a wide variety of sources, the volume provides new insights into the Old Norse environmental imagination, showing how premodern texts relate to nature and the environment – both the real-world environments of the Viking Age and Middle Ages, and the fantastic environments of some parts of saga literature.
Collectively, the contributions shed new light on the role of cultural contacts, textual traditions, and intertextuality in the shaping of Old Norse perceptions and representations of nature and the environment, as well as on the modern reception and (mis-)use of these ideas.
The volume moreover has a contemporary relevance, inviting readers to consider the lessons that can be learned from how people perceived their environments and interacted with them in the past as we face environmental crises in our own times.
Ibsen at the Theatrical Crossroads of Europe: A Performance History of Henrik Ibsen’s Plays on the Romanian Stages, 1894–1947
Gianina Druta
https://www.transcript-verlag.de/978–3‑8376–7018‑9/ibsen-at-the-theatrical-crossroads-of-europe/
die DOI https://doi.org/10.14361/9783839470183 ist noch nicht registriert
While Ibsen’s plays were seldom performed in Romania in the first half of the 20th century, historical sources highlight his strong impact on the national theatre practice. To address this contradiction, Gianina Druta approaches the reception of Ibsen in the Romanian theatre in the period 1894–1947, combining Digital Humanities and theatre historiography. This investigation of the European theatre culture and the way in which the foreign acting and staging traditions influenced the Romanian Ibsenites provides new insights into mechanisms of aesthetic transmission. Thus, this study presents a European theatre landscape whose unpredictability and uniqueness cannot be confined to essentialist interpretations.