Books by Ulla Kallenbach

Tidens urolige sammenblanding af fakta og fiktion, historie og kunst, har igen gjort fortiden til en akademisk, politisk og kulturel kampplads.Det historiske blik undersøger spændet mellem genskabelse af fortiden, ”som den var,” og aktualisering af historien i kulturelle og politiske sammenhænge. Forfatterne beskriver, hvordan det historiske perspektiv kan bidrage til forståelsen af aktuelle konflikter og trends. Samtidig stiller de skarpt på det tilsyneladende modsætningsforhold mellem den historiske forsknings retrospektive blik på den moderne verden og den aktuelle fordring om at løse samfundsproblemer her og nu.Det historiske blik diskuterer historiebrug og historisk forskning på tværs af traditionelle fagskel. Bogen samler forskere fra fagfelter som antropologi, kunsthistorie, lingvistik, historie, jura, teologi og litteratur. Tilsammen giver de et bud på den historiske forsknings rolle og status – nu og i fremtiden.

This book is the first comprehensive analysis of the fascinating and strikingly diverse history of imagination in the context of theatre and drama. Key questions that the book explores are: How do spectators engage with the drama in performance, and how does the historical context influence the dramaturgy of imagination? In addition to offering a study of the cultural history and theory of imagination in a European context including its philosophical, physiological, cultural and political implications, the book examines the cultural enactment of imagination in the drama text and offers practical strategies for analyzing the aesthetic practice of imagination in drama texts. It covers the early modern to the late modernist period and includes three in-depth case studies: William Shakespeare's Macbeth (c.1606); Henrik Ibsen's A Doll's House (1879); and Eugène Ionesco's The Killer (1957).

This book is the first comprehensive analysis of the fascinating and strikingly diverse history of imagination in the context of theatre and drama. Key questions that the book explores are: How do spectators engage with the drama in performance, and how does the historical context influence the dramaturgy of imagination? In addition to offering a study of the cultural history and theory of imagination in a European context including its philosophical, physiological, cultural and political implications, the book examines the cultural enactment of imagination in the drama text and offers practical strategies for analyzing the aesthetic practice of imagination in drama texts. It covers the early modern to the late modernist period and includes three in-depth case studies: William Shakespeare¿s Macbeth (c.1606); Henrik Ibsen¿s A Doll¿s House (1879); and Eugène Ionescös The Killer (1957).