The Nordic Legacy: Ibsen, Strindberg, Munch and Bergman

This course examines the work of four major Scandinavian artists. As key figures in the development of modern theater, painting and film, these four figures share a number of common concerns: challenging the pieties of bourgeois mores; reconceiving the relations between the sexes; moving from the social to the metaphysical; undermining the unitary view of the self; and forging an artistic "language" through which the in-dwelling power of the psyche can be revealed.