Book contents
- Ibsen in Context
- Ibsen in Context
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Figures
- Contributors
- Preface
- Notes on the text
- Chronology
- Part I Life and Career
- Part II Culture and Society
- Part III Scandinavian Reception
- Part IV Internationalization
- Chapter 17 Copyright
- Chapter 18 Censorship
- Chapter 19 German Reception
- Chapter 20 British Reception
- Chapter 21 French Reception
- Chapter 22 Parodies
- Chapter 23 Early Globalization
- Part V Afterlives
- Further Reading
- Index
Chapter 22 - Parodies
from Part IV - Internationalization
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 23 April 2021
- Ibsen in Context
- Ibsen in Context
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Figures
- Contributors
- Preface
- Notes on the text
- Chronology
- Part I Life and Career
- Part II Culture and Society
- Part III Scandinavian Reception
- Part IV Internationalization
- Chapter 17 Copyright
- Chapter 18 Censorship
- Chapter 19 German Reception
- Chapter 20 British Reception
- Chapter 21 French Reception
- Chapter 22 Parodies
- Chapter 23 Early Globalization
- Part V Afterlives
- Further Reading
- Index
Summary
This chapter examines the main trends in the international parodies of Ibsen from the late 1880s and ’90s, both those intended primarily for print and for the stage. Proceeding from Margaret Rose’s model of parody as ‘comic refunctioning of preformed linguistic or artistic material’, the chapter examines the parodic treatments of Ibsen as a retrospective measure of his reception context: where his contemporaries in Great Britain, Norway, Sweden and Germany saw him crossing the lines of conventional drama, lines that the respondents either were invested in defending or simply calling attention to in order to understand through parodic distortion the contributions Ibsen was making. Two areas that provoked repeated parodic treatment had to do with varying international perceptions of the dramas’ cultural specificity and their generic indeterminacy.
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- Ibsen in Context , pp. 192 - 199Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2021