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... Allmers is simply " boastful of creative achievements but actually sterile , " and that Rosmer is no more than " a feeble soul , his nobility depleted by aristocratic inbreeding " is a too restrictive reading of Ibsen's irony . In The ...
... Allmers is simply " boastful of creative achievements but actually sterile , " and that Rosmer is no more than " a feeble soul , his nobility depleted by aristocratic inbreeding " is a too restrictive reading of Ibsen's irony . In The ...
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... Allmers as representatives of a " poetry of living . " The struggles towards heroism of these aspiring figures may be immature , as with Falk , inarticulate and frustrated , as with Hedda , or ironically limited , as with Allmers , but ...
... Allmers as representatives of a " poetry of living . " The struggles towards heroism of these aspiring figures may be immature , as with Falk , inarticulate and frustrated , as with Hedda , or ironically limited , as with Allmers , but ...
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... Allmers , John Gabriel Borkman , and Arnold Rubek . Borghejm is undoubtedly Ibsen's closest approach to that genuine but completely unhistrionic heroism which he seems to envisage in the letter to Brandes in which he implies the need ...
... Allmers , John Gabriel Borkman , and Arnold Rubek . Borghejm is undoubtedly Ibsen's closest approach to that genuine but completely unhistrionic heroism which he seems to envisage in the letter to Brandes in which he implies the need ...
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