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    STUDIA PHILOLOGIA - Issue no. 3 / 2006  
         
  Article:   DOLL HOUSING.

Authors:  MARK B. SANDBERG. 		 
       
         
  Abstract:  Doll Housing. This article examines the ways in which Ibsen undermines the easy embrace of the notion of "home" in his 1879 play, A Doll House. A close reading of the word pair “house” and “home” reveals how the play’s contest of architectural metaphors opens up space for thinking about new positions beyond simple endorsement or rejection of the bourgeois home. Nora is an early example in Ibsen’s prose plays of the "modern unhomely,” a character whose rejection of the home resonates with the much broader cultural stakes of architectural thought among progressive authors of the late nineteenth century.  
         
     
         
         
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