Pillars of Society is the story of Karsten Bernick; a prominent businessman in a small Norwegian coastal town. Karsten comes from a wealthy shipping and shipbuilding family yet he has aspirations for an even greater enterprise. When he begins secretly buying up land in the valley between the town and the main rail line; which he is backing a new rail connection to; his scandalous past suddenly comes back to him in the form of Johan Tonnesen; his wifes younger brother; who has just returned from America. Written in 1877; Ibsens "Pillars of Society" predates a string of masterpieces by the dramatist that would ultimately secure his place in literary history. While criticized for its ending; the play accurately portrays the power of the rich to often rise above the power of the law.
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2 of 2 people found the following review helpful. An indispensable text for doing Asia/Pacific cult studiesBy Rob WilsonThis is an indispensable text for doing Asia/Pacific cultural studies in the contemporary moment; exposing a range of tactics and problems under construction. The range of work and disciplinary mixtures challenge prior and stable senses of what constitutues the field of social science; or literary studies for that matter; and "cultural studies" is itself seen to be a mongrel fate of uncertainty and exploration; tracing "trajectories" from Taipei to Birmingham and Honolulu and beyond. A work of global/local engagements; in the full sense of that dialectic. Ien Ang is NOT the co-editor at all; by the way.1 of 1 people found the following review helpful. A useful approach to the maze of Asia/Pacific struggles.By A CustomerDislocates and relocates practices and discipline of cultural studies in an array of Asia/Pacific sites in the context of resurrecting decolonizing dynamics and social democratic energies from earlier projects. The end result is a useful and multiple approach to the complex maze of Asia/Pacific cultural and political struggles;with more to come from Taiwan and elsewhere beyond the Birmingham old model.