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  • Ibsen and the Repertory System: Peer Gynt on the German Stage

  • JENS-MORTEN HANSSEN
  • Journal:
    Theatre Research International / Volume 45 / Issue 2 / July 2020
    Published online by Cambridge University Press:
    24 June 2020, pp. 143-159
    Print publication:
    July 2020

  • Henrik Ibsen's Peer Gynt remained a rarely performed play throughout the author's lifetime. It was not until around the outbreak of the First World War that stage productions of the play began to proliferate. This article examines the pre-1945 production history of the play in the light of a concept that signifies a particular way of composing a repertoire, the repertory system. It was first and foremost prominent stages in Germany that paved the way for Peer Gynt to become incorporated into this system, leading to an exponential growth in the number of stage events. The production history illustrates how plays that are performed over a long period of time question the notion of production as a fixed mise en scène. Supporting Linda Hutcheon's argument about adaptation as a continuous process, the productions examined here demonstrate that there was no such thing as a standard way to adapt Peer Gynt for the stage.

  • 12 - Crisis and Critique: TheTransformation of the Arab Radical Tradition between the 1960s and the 1980s

  • Edited by Laure Guirguis
  • Book:
    The Arab Lefts
    Published by:
    Edinburgh University Press
    Published online:
    08 October 2020
    Print publication:
    01 May 2020, pp 222-242

  • Summary

    Introduction

    In this chapter, I revisit two moments of crisis and critique in twentiethcentury Arab intellectual history: a public debate between Arab leftists and nationalists in Cairo in 1961, and the emergence of Arab Marxists‘ scholarship on Materialism and Arabic-Islamic philosophy ten years later. Both moments are embedded in their global and regional contexts, but are articulated by two sets of intellectuals. The first pits Muhammad Hasanayn Haykal (1923–2016) against Clovis Maksoud (1926–2016) over the relationship between the organic intellectual and the state. Haykal's Crisis of the Intellectuals (1961) was an attempt by Nasser's ‘court intellectual’ to goad a reluctant leftist vanguard into his president's project of Egyptian state building. Haykal summoned Arab intellectuals to Cairo for a threemonth- long conference in 1961, the result of which was a compromise of sorts: Nasser's adoption of Arab Socialism as state doctrine in the Egyptian National Charter of 1962. The second moment focuses on the Arab Left‘s historical-philosophical turn launched by the late Tayyib Tizini (1929–2019) around 1970. Other interlocutors and subsequent commentaries, concluding with Husayn Muruwwa's Materialist Tendencies in Arabic–Islamic Philosophy (1978), complement my discussion. I contend that my preliminary findings historicise our knowledge of the complexities of the Arab Left and teach us to step out of our particular academic moments when practising cultural critique in response to today's crises.

    Most immediately, the ‘puzzle’ I am interested in is the twin concepts of ‘crisis’ and ‘critique’. The modern Middle East has been saturated with crisis talk, so much so that a new crop of economic historians are developing methodologies in order to avoid the reification of the crisis paradigm.4 And yet, we have no idea about the genealogy of the term ‘al-azma’, etymologically or discursively. The nahda texts are often replete with self-criticism and immanent critique which animated both religious reform and literary revival discourses. But they do not invoke an intellectual ‘crisis’, or define crisis in political terms.

Arabic Thought against the Authoritarian Age
  • Towards an Intellectual History of the Present
  • Edited by Jens Hanssen, Max Weiss
  • Published online:
    05 February 2018
    Print publication:
    15 February 2018
  • In the wake of the Arab uprisings, the Middle East descended into a frenzy of political turmoil and unprecedented human tragedy which reinforced regrettable stereotypes about the moribund state of Arab intellectual and cultural life. This volume sheds important light on diverse facets of the post-war Arab world and its vibrant intellectual, literary and political history. Cutting-edge research is presented on such wide-ranging topics as poetry, intellectual history, political philosophy, and religious reform and cultural resilience all across the length and breadth of the Arab world, from Morocco to the Gulf States. This is an important statement of new directions in Middle East studies that challenges conventional thinking and has added relevance to the study of global intellectual history more broadly.

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