ABOUT THIS BOOK

This fine collection of essays offers a wide range of new and original perspectives on Strindberg and his relation to modern and contemporary literature. By using Strindberg as a fulcrum or spring board, the volume opens a unique and unusual historical perspective on Europe and European literature. One of the important values of The International Strindberg is that it will appeal to a variety of readers, since the essays cover such a diverse range of approaches. The introduction is particularly impressive because it both sets up the value of looking at Strindberg from a twenty-first century perspective and suggests how that can and should be done. The volume demonstrates the variety of ways in which Strindberg’s work can be seen and discussed in light of twentieth and even twenty-first century literature.

AUTHOR BIOGRAPHY

Anna Westerståhl Stenport is the director of the Scandinavian Program and an associate professor in the departments of Germanic Languages and Literatures, Comparative and World Literature, Media and Cinema Studies, Theatre, Gender and Women’s Studies, and Criticism and Interpretive Theory, and in the Global Studies Program in the College of Liberal Arts & Sciences at the University of Illinois.

TABLE OF CONTENTS

Table of ContentsAcknowledgements p. 41. Introduction: The International Strindberg p. 6Anna Westerståhl Stenport 2. Stockholm – Berlin – Moscow: Strindberg and Avant-Garde Performance in the 1920sEszter Szalczer p. 37 3. Castration Anxiety and Traumatic Encounters with the Real in the Works of August Strindberg and Lars von Trier p. 70Mads Bunch 4. Reconsidering the Place of Strindberg in Surrealism: André Breton and the Light of the Objective Chance Encounter p. 103.Maxime Abolgassemi 5. Standing at the Bourne of the Modern: Strindberg's Ecological Subject in By the Open Sea and his Archipelago Paintings p. 127Linda Haverty Rugg 6. Paris, Laboratory of Modernity: Modernist Experimentation and August Strindberg’s Search for "the Equation" in Paris p. 151Sylvain Briens 7. Voices and Visions in Fingal’s Cave: Plato and Strindberg p. 181Freddie Rokem 8. Money Metaphors and Rhetoric of Resource Depletion: Creditors and Late Nineteenth-Century European Economics. p. 207Anna Westerståhl Stenport 9. A Nineteenth-Century Long Poem Meets Modernity: Sleepwalking Nights p. 239Massimo Ciaravolo 10. By the Open Sea—A Decadent Novel? Reconsidering Relationships between Nietzsche, Strindberg, and Fin-de-siècle Culture. p. 279.Tobias Dahlkvist 11. ‘The Spoken Word is All’—‘Ordet det talade är allt’: Translating Strindberg for the International Stage p. 308.Anne-Charlotte Hanes Harvey 12. The Art of Doubt: Form, Genre, History in Miss Julie p. 359Leonardo F. Lisi 13. Notes on Contributors p. 401

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