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The Italian Tragedy in the Renaissance
This book is about the Renaissance revitalization of classical drama. Using a cultural and theatrical approach, it shows how Italian playwrights made ancient tragedy relevant to their audiences. The book challenges the traditional critical approach to the Italian Renaissance tragedy as a mere literary work, and calls attention to the complementary function of the theatrical text, which is 'reconstructed' from the stage directions embedded in the discourse of the characters.
Vanguard Performance Beyond Left and Right
Vanguard Performance Beyond Left and Right challenges assumptions regarding “radical” and “experimental” performance that have long dominated thinking about the avant-garde. The book brings to light vanguard performances rarely discussed: those that support totalitarian regimes, promote conservative values, or have been effectively snapped up by right-wing regimes the performances intended to oppose. In so doing, the volume explores a central paradox: how innovative performances that challenge oppressive power structures can also be deployed in deliberate, passionate support of oppressive power. Essays by leading international scholars pose engaging questions about the historical ava...
A Companion to Pietro Aretino
An interdisciplinary exploration of one of the most prolific and controversial figures of early modern Europe. This volume is comprised of seven sections, each devoted to a specific aspect Aretino’s life and works.
Grazia Deledda
Si deve prima di tutto chiarire che il lavoro di Rocco Mario Morano si sviluppa su due linee interpretative interdipendenti: un’esauriente analisi testuale e una ricerca interdisciplinare che porta a illuminanti risultati. Le sette opere narrative prescelte, che coprono un vasto arco temporale, dal 1903 al 1935, vengono adeguatamente analizzate per tematiche e personaggi; il discorso però non si limita a cogliere gli elementi intratestuali e intertestuali, il che avviene ed è pur sempre importante, ma arriva a proporre collegamenti con la narrativa e la cultura del tempo, italiana ed europea, allargandosi anche ai classici più antichi e al libro per eccellenza, cioè alla Bibbia. Nel su...
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