Table Of Contents:

List of Illustrations ix
Acknowledgments xii

Introduction 1(9)

Power 10(151)

Speaking God: Kierkegaard and Lagerkvist 10(31)

The Play of Patriarchy: Ibsen and Strindberh 41(70)

Chil's Play: The Cradle Song in Strindber's The Father 45(29)

Metamorphosis in Ibsen's Little Eyolf 74

The Powers and the Self: Strindber's Inferno and Gustafsson's Tennis Players 111(50)

Boundary Smashing 161(152)

Going Through the Wall: Shakespeare, Strindberg, Josephson, Bergman 161(36)

The Child's Revenge: Kierkegaard, Ibsen, Lindgren, Cronqvist 197(49)

Hamsum's Hunger and Writing 246(27)

Stories of Fusion: Vesaas's The Ice Palace and Bergman's Persona 273(40)

Graphing Power 313(126)

Breakthrough, Time, and Flux in Edvard Munch (the Cubist) 313(39)

The Case of Ernst Josephson 352(87)

Concluding the Book 439(22)

Introdcuing Strindberg the Painter
Notes 461(46)
Index 507