The Ethics of Early Ibsen : An Examination of the Ethics of Ibsen’s Early Plays Between 1850-1857
Institution: | University of Oslo |
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Year: | 1000 |
Keywords: | VDP:: 042 |
Record ID: | 1289613 |
Full text PDF: | https://www.duo.uio.no/handle/10852/38148 |
My thesis deals with the ethics of early Ibsen, taking for its scope the early plays written by Ibsen between 1850-1857, just before the Christiania Marriage Crisis. My thesis both creatively engages with and finally distances itself from the negative and ambivalent schools of criticism, which I trace to the influences of Brandes and Ricoeur. It advances an ethics of early Ibsen from the positive school, whose influence I trace to Løchen. Following an excursus into the viability of literary ethics in the age of technology, I engage in a dialectical analysis of 'Catiline', 'The Burial Mound', 'Lady Inger', 'Norma', 'Olaf Liljekrans', 'The Feast at Solhaug', and the Marriage Triad, deriving an ethical system therefrom.