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Echoing Voices in Italian Literature
This collection of essays explores the reception of classics and translation from modern languages as two different, yet synergic, ways of engaging with literary canons and established traditions in 20th-century Italy. These two areas complement each other and equally contribute to shape several kinds of identities: authorial, literary, national and cultural. Foregrounding the transnational aspects of key concepts such as poetics, literary voice, canon and tradition, the book is intended for scholars and students of Italian literature and culture, classical reception and translation studies. With its two shifting focuses, on forms of classical tradition and forms of literary translation, the volume brings to the fore new configurations of 20th-century literature, culture and thought.
Luigi Pirandello in the Theatre
First Published in 1993. Contemporary Theatre Studies is a book series of special interest to everyone involved in theatre. This collection of documents is the first attempt in English to bring together a body of material on Luigi Pirandello as multi-faceted man of the theatre. Because relatively few of his works have been easily available to English language readers, he is thought of most frequently as a playwright, the author of Six Characters in Search of an Author and Henry IV in particular, and his contribution to theatre, both in theory and in practice, has tended to be overlooked. Emphasising his role as a director, the book traces the rise and fall of his own theatre company, the Teatro d’Arte where he struggled to instil new practices and comments on Pirandello’s attempts during the years of Fascism to give Italy a national theatre in a European context.
Acting the Essence
Acting the Essence examines the theory, practice, and history of the art of the performer from the perspective of its inner nature as work on oneself, within, around, and beyond the pedagogy of the actor. Ref lecting primarily on the legacy of Jerzy Grotowski, this book is composed of a series of ref lections on the Stanislavskian lineage of practitioners and related authors, in an attempt to revive awareness of the original path traced by the Russian master and to refine certain ambiguities in contemporary training. In a new media age of image and sound, accompanied by a proliferation of new technologies and means to communicate, emphasised by the COVID-19 crisis, a classic question comes t...
Art of Enigma
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Fascism and Theatre
Presents 15 essays from an interdisciplinary research project, offering a comparative analysis of the forms and functions of theater in countries governed by fascist and para-fascist regimes. Topics include the cultural politics of fascist governments; the theater of politics in fascist Italy; Mussolini's "Theater of the Masses"; the influence of the Reich's Ministry of Propaganda on German theater and drama; and Jaques Copeau and popular theater in Vichy France. Annotation copyright by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR
Three Tragic Actresses
This book examines the careers of three very different but pivotal actresses, placing their art in context.
Encyclopedia of Italian Literary Studies: A-J
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The Struggle for Life and the Modern Italian Novel, 1859-1925
This book explores Darwinism in modern Italian literature. In the years between Italy’s unification (1861) and the rise of fascism, many writers gave voice to anxieties connected with the ideas of evolution and progress. This study shows how Italian authors borrowed and reworked a scientific vocabulary to write about the contradictions and the contrasting tensions of Italy’s cultural and political-economic modernization. It focuses, above all, on novels by Italo Svevo, Federico De Roberto and Luigi Pirandello. The analysis centers on such topics as the struggle against adverse social conditions in capitalistic society, the risk of failing to survive the struggle itself, the adaptive issues of individuals uprooted from their family and work environments, the concerns about the heredity of maladapted characters. Accordingly, the book also argues that the hybridization and variation of both narrative forms and collective mindsets describes the modernist awareness of the cultural complexity experienced in Italy and Europe at this time.
Performance and Translation in a Global Age
A window onto new and innovative thinking in performance theory, comparative literature and translation across genres and internationally.
Italienisches Theater des 20. Jahrhunderts in Einzelinterpretationen
Der Band vereinigt erstmalig die Interpretationen von insgesamt einundzwanzig Theaterstücken zwanzig verschiedener Autoren und bietet einen repräsentativen Querschnitt der Entwicklung des italienischen Theaters des Novecento. Den Beginn macht das „symbolistische“ Theater Gabriele D’Annunzios, gefolgt von einem Stück von Filippo Tommaso Marinetti, dem Begründer des Futurismus, sowie vom „grotesken“ Theater Luigi Chiarellis und Pier Maria Rosso di San Secondos. Es schließt sich Luigi Pirandello mit zwei berühmten Dramen an, und Roberto Bracco, Alberto Savinio und Massimo Bontempelli machen den Leser mit alternativen Theaterkonzepten bekannt. Es folgen Aldo De Benedetti, Ugo Betti, Diego Fabbri, Eduardo De Filippo, Natalia Ginzburg, Giovanni Testori, Dario Fo, Dacia Maraini, Pier Paolo Pasolini und Carmelo Bene. Das neapolitanische Theater ist durch Annibale Ruccello vertreten, und den Abschluss bildet der szenische Monolog Novecento von Alessandro Baricco. Dass natürlich gegebenenfalls auch die Debatte über den Vorrang des „teatro dei registi“ oder des „teatro della parola“ zur Sprache kommt, ist selbstverständlich.
