Ibsen and Hnath's : a doll's house
Other Title(s)
"بيت الدمية" لابسن و لنيث
Parallel Title
"بيت الدمية" لابسن و لنيث
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Source
Issue
Vol. 4, Issue 4 (31 Jul. 2021), pp.562-594, 33 p.
Publisher
Tikrit University College of Education for Women
Publication Date
2021-07-31
Country of Publication
Iraq
No. of Pages
33
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Abstract EN
Henrik Ibsen's concern in A doll's house (1879) is the exposition of what he deems social evils and shortcomings, consequently leaving his protagonist's future, after she famously slams the door on her married life, to the audience's speculation.
His open ending thus exemplifies Barthes's seminal argument against unquestioned authorial authority in 'The death of the author' (1967), reasoning that what matters is the impression that a text makes on its destination, i.
e.
, the reader.
This paper looks into the take of one such reader on Ibsen's text.
Lucas Hnath, who provides a sequel to Ibsen's play, daringly calling it A doll's house, part 2 (2017), interprets Nora's venturing into the outer world in terms of career and financial success.
He begins his play with a knock on the same door ushering in, supposedly fifteen years later, the now established and self-assured feminist novelist Nora.
As the two plays thus form a unified ontology, they showcase the Formalist postulate of the recurrent devices and the binding autonomous interrelations of literature.
The themes that Ibsen starts are continued and elaborated by Hnath, who offers an extensive portrayal of various perceptions of Nora's decision to leave her family.
He does so through the tactic of the discussion, originally introduced by Ibsen, which goes counter to the latter's general style of the well-made play.
As New Criticism shares with Formalism its focus on the literary text itself, severing it from author and social context, its approach of close reading is used in this paper to analyze the merged schema of the two plays
American Psychological Association (APA)
Dabbagh, Tara Tahir. 2021. Ibsen and Hnath's : a doll's house. Journal of Language Studies،Vol. 4, no. 4, pp.562-594.
https://search.emarefa.net/detail/BIM-1358868
Modern Language Association (MLA)
Dabbagh, Tara Tahir. Ibsen and Hnath's : a doll's house. Journal of Language Studies Vol. 4, no. 4 (Jul. 2021), pp.562-594.
https://search.emarefa.net/detail/BIM-1358868
American Medical Association (AMA)
Dabbagh, Tara Tahir. Ibsen and Hnath's : a doll's house. Journal of Language Studies. 2021. Vol. 4, no. 4, pp.562-594.
https://search.emarefa.net/detail/BIM-1358868
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Journal Articles
Language
English
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BIM-1358868