Tropes Revisited: Evert Sprinchorn's Ibsen's Kingdom: The Man and His Works and Recent Historical Research in Ibsen Studies

IF 0.3 4区社会学 0 HUMANITIES, MULTIDISCIPLINARY

SCANDINAVIAN STUDIES Pub Date : 2022-10-01 DOI:10.5406/21638195.94.4.06

Ellen Rees

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Evert Sprinchorn’s biography of the Norwegian dramatist Henrik Ibsen, Ibsen’s Kingdom: The Man and His Works, published by Yale University Press in 2020, is riddled throughout with errors and presents neither new information about “the Man” nor particularly insightful interpretations of “His Works.” Sprinchorn has missed what amounts to a revolution in historical and biographical research into Ibsen’s life spearheaded by Ivo de Figueiredo’s two-volume biography Henrik Ibsen: Mennesket (2006; Henrik Ibsen: The Human Being) and Henrik Ibsen: Masken (2007; Henrik Ibsen: The Mask).1 De Figueiredo’s groundbreaking study is now available in one volume in Robert Ferguson’s English translation, also published by Yale University Press (de Figueiredo 2019). The 2010 publication of Den biografiske Ibsen (The Biographical Ibsen) marks a major advancement in Ibsen scholarship overlooked by Sprinchorn; this collection of articles calls into question the historical accuracy of many of the persistent biographical tropes about Ibsen (Sæther, Dingstad, Kittang, and Rekdal 2010). Sprinchorn cites neither this important volume, nor any of the meticulously researched and compelling biographical, book-historical, and theaterhistorical findings by scholars such as Anette Storli Andersen, Ståle

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《易卜生的王国:人与作品》与易卜生研究的近代史研究

Evert Sprinchorn为挪威剧作家Henrik Ibsen撰写的传记《易卜生的王国：人和他的作品》于2020年由耶鲁大学出版社出版，该传记漏洞百出，既没有提供关于“人”的新信息，也没有对“他的作品”做出特别有见地的解读。“斯普林乔恩错过了由伊沃·德·菲格雷多的两卷本传记《亨里克·易卜生：门尼斯基特》（2006年；亨里克·伊卜生：人类）和《亨里克·易卜生》（2007年；亨利克·易卜森：面具）所引领的对易卜生生活的历史和传记研究的革命翻译，也由耶鲁大学出版社出版（de Figueiredo 2019）。2010年出版的《易卜生传》标志着被斯普林乔恩忽视的易卜生学术的重大进步；这组文章对许多关于易卜生的传记比喻的历史准确性提出了质疑（Sæther、Dingstad、Kittang和Rekdal，2010年）。Sprinchorn既没有引用这本重要的书，也没有引用Anette Storli Andersen、Ståle等学者精心研究和引人注目的传记、书籍历史和戏剧历史发现

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