Strindberg and His Media: Proceedings of the 15th International Strindberg Conference (Skandinavistik)

Paperback, 368 pages, NOT ex-library. A clean and bright copy with unmarked text, free of inscriptions and stamps. A gentle diagonal crease/bend to upper outer corner of the rear cover and several pages. Firm secure binding. Cover shows light shelfworn marks and smudges, two large areas of non-sticky glue residue on rear panel (removed stickers), wear to tips of corners. -- "The essays which make up this volume focus on Strindberg's use of contemporary media for his aesthetic and scientific experiments, they discuss the functions of media and their discursive constructions as they are reflected in his writings. As the contributions in this volume demonstrate, Strindberg's occupation with the media of his time is closely linked to the modern crises of identity, masculinity, language, representation and perception. Thus Strindberg's writings can be regarded as an interface between media discourses and other social, scientific and aesthetic discourses." -- Contents: 1. Strindberg and Media Studies: - Annegret Heitmann: August Strindberg's Fordringsägare and/as Media Studies; 2. Media and the Crisis of Identity: - Ulf Olsson: Telephone. Notes on Communication Technology and Meaning in Strindberg's Works; - Anne-Bitt Gerecke: Inszenierte und unterlaufene Autorschaft im Medienwechsel. Textualität, Theatralität, Photographie bei Strindberg; - Annie Bourguignon: Die Poetik der Reportage bei Strindberg; - Anna Cavallin: Strindberg's New Women and Some Encounters with the Media; - Ulrike Peters: Conspired Writing in Strindberg's Drama The Father; - Elena Balzamo: Strindberg und seine Verleger; 3. Strindberg on Stage: - Marianne Streisand: Strindbergs Entwurf Einer Asthetik der Intimität und ihre Realisierung bei Max Reinhardt; - Birgitta Steene: Ingmar Bergman Staging Strindberg; - Barbara Lide: En dåres försvarstal. Strindberg's Self-Portrayal and Max Lundqvist's Adaptations; - Egil Törnqvist: Strindberg on Page and Stage. Miss Julie as Paradigmatic Example; - Eivor Martinus: Strindberg Indirect; 4. Visuality: - Göran Söderström: Strindberg och Adolf Paul i Berlin och några mystifierande nyupptäckta 'strindbergsmålningar'; - Grischka Petri: Kunst als Schlüssel zum Himmelreich. Strindbergs Malerei als Medium der Erkenntnis; - Jan Balbierz: Linsen, smältdegeln och 'ett slags halv verklighet'. Om Strindbergs experiment med fotografin 1886-1911; - Roger Marmus: '. från kupéfönstret under full fart'. Landskapsskildring i rörelse i Bland franska bönder; 5. Intermediality / Intertextuality: - Jørgen Stender Clausen: Strindberg's The Ghost Sonata: The Allegorical Role of Multimediality; - Joachim Grage: Strindbergs 'Sista Sonater'. Musikalisch-literarische Intermedialität in den Kammarspel; - Piotr Bukowski: Über die Mehrdimensionalität der Goethe-Rezeption in Strindbergs Spätwerk; - Henk van der Liet: Two Pariahs: From Short Story to Short Play; 6. Pictures.…