Pirandello S Theatre Of Living Masks

Author : Umberto Mariani,Alice Gladstone Mariani
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
Page : 345 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2011-08-06
Category : Drama
ISBN : 9781442662063

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Pirandello's Theatre of Living Masks by Umberto Mariani,Alice Gladstone Mariani Pdf

Nobel Prize-winning dramatist Luigi Pirandello is known worldwide for his innovative, complex plays. In Pirandello's Theatre of Living Masks, Umberto Mariani and Alice Gladstone Mariani offer the first new edition in nearly sixty years of six of his major works - Liola, It Is So If You Think So, Six Characters in Search of an Author, Henry IV, Each in His Own Way, and The Mountain Giants. Mariani and Mariani's translations of these texts are both vibrant and faithful to the originals, using contemporary expressions and unambiguous language to facilitate readability and comprehension. This edition also offers a critical introduction to each play's most significant characters and structures, highlighting themes and poetics as they correspond to Pirandello's entire body of work. Pirandello's Theatre of Living Masks will appeal to those already familiar with his plays and those looking to discover one of the twentieth century's great dramatists.

Author : Umberto Mariani
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
Page : 161 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2008-01-01
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780802098993

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Living Masks by Umberto Mariani Pdf

Umberto Mariani presents a clear and comprehensive introduction of Pirandello's major plays for general readers, students, and scholars new to Pirandello.

Author : Luigi Pirandello
Publisher : Plume Books
Page : 420 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 1952
Category : Drama
ISBN : 052548499X

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Naked Masks by Luigi Pirandello Pdf

Presents six plays by the Nobel Prize winning dramatist.

Author : Luigi Pirandello,Umberto Mariani,Alice Gladstone Mariani
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
Page : 345 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2011-01-01
Category : Drama
ISBN : 9781442642119

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Pirandello's Theatre of Living Masks by Luigi Pirandello,Umberto Mariani,Alice Gladstone Mariani Pdf

In Pirandello's Theatre of Living Masks, Umberto Mariani and Alice Gladstone Mariani offer the first new edition in nearly sixty years of six of his major works.

Author : W. Michelle Wang,Daniel K. Jernigan,Neil Murphy
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 512 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2020-12-07
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781000220742

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The Routledge Companion to Death and Literature by W. Michelle Wang,Daniel K. Jernigan,Neil Murphy Pdf

The Routledge Companion to Death and Literature seeks to understand the ways in which literature has engaged deeply with the ever-evolving relationship humanity has with its ultimate demise. It is the most comprehensive collection in this growing field of study and includes essays by Brian McHale, Catherine Belling, Ronald Schleifer, Helen Swift, and Ira Nadel, as well as the work of a generation of younger scholars from around the globe, who bring valuable transnational insights. Encompassing a diverse range of mediums and genres – including biography and autobiography, documentary, drama, elegy, film, the novel and graphic novel, opera, picturebooks, poetry, television, and more – the contributors offer a dynamic mix of approaches that range from expansive perspectives on particular periods and genres to extended analyses of select case studies. Essays are included from every major Western period, including Classical, Middle Ages, Renaissance, and so on, right up to the contemporary. This collection provides a telling demonstration of the myriad ways that humanity has learned to live with the inevitability of death, where “live with” itself might mean any number of things: from consoling, to memorializing, to rationalizing, to fending off, to evading, and, perhaps most compellingly of all, to escaping. Engagingly written and drawing on examples from around the world, this volume is indispensable to both students and scholars working in the fields of medical humanities, thanatography (death studies), life writing, Victorian studies, modernist studies, narrative, contemporary fiction, popular culture, and more.

Author : Lloyd Besant
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 238 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 1952
Category : Electronic
ISBN : WISC:89085926228

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Pirandello's Life-mask by Lloyd Besant Pdf

Author : Susan Bassnett,Jennifer Lorch
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 236 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2014-03-18
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781134351145

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Luigi Pirandello in the Theatre by Susan Bassnett,Jennifer Lorch Pdf

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.

Author : Robin Healey
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
Page : 1104 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2019-03-07
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781487502928

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Italian Literature since 1900 in English Translation 1929-2016 by Robin Healey Pdf

Providing the most complete record possible of texts by Italian writers active after 1900, this annotated bibliography covers over 4,800 distinct editions of writings by some 1,700 Italian authors. Many entries are accompanied by useful notes that provide information on the authors, works, translators, and the reception of the translations. This book includes the works of Pirandello, Calvino, Eco, and more recently, Andrea Camilleri and Valerio Manfredi. Together with Robin Healey's Italian Literature before 1900 in English Translation, also published by University of Toronto Press in 2011, this volume makes comprehensive information on translations from Italian accessible for schools, libraries, and those interested in comparative literature.

Author : Domenico Vittorini
Publisher : University of Pennsylvania Press
Page : 368 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2018-03-19
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781512819144

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The Drama of Luigi Pirandello by Domenico Vittorini Pdf

Pirandello, winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature, is a little known to most English readers. Too few of his plays and stories have been translated. This hook, therefore, serves the double purpose of introducing the Italian genius through a summary of all his dramatic work and interpreting his accomplishments fron an artistic viewpoint. As a background for his criticism, the Domenico Vittorini shows first how Pirandello's compassionate pessimism and tragic mockery resulted from his own tortured existence and in what way his art is relates to Italian literary tradition and contemporary thought. Proceeding chronologically, Pirandello's growth is traced from the elementary naturalism of his early writing, through his more reflective plays, to the crowning achievements of later years in which dramatic situations are approached from a highly intellectualized point of view.

Author : Susan H. Smith,Susan Harris Smith,John Chandler,Susan V. Smith
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 276 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 1984-01-01
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0520050959

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Masks in Modern Drama by Susan H. Smith,Susan Harris Smith,John Chandler,Susan V. Smith Pdf

Author : Luigi Pirandello
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 1952
Category : Italian drama
ISBN : OCLC:4090224

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Naked Masks by Luigi Pirandello Pdf

Author : Nourit Melcer-Padon
Publisher : transcript Verlag
Page : 221 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2018-05-31
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9783839441862

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Creating Communities by Nourit Melcer-Padon Pdf

How does historical reality interrelate with fiction? And how much are readers themselves involved in the workings of fictional literature? With innovative interpretations of various well-known texts, Nourit Melcer-Padon introduces the use of literary masks and illustrates literature's engagement of its readers' ethical judgement. She promotes a new perception of literary theory and of connections between thinkers such as Iser, Castoriadis, Sartre, Jung and Neumann. The book offers a unique view on the role of the community in post-existentialist modern cultural reality by emphasizing the importance of ritual practices in literature as a cultural manifestation.

Author : Giancarlo Maiorino
Publisher : Penn State Press
Page : 378 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2010-11
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780271048192

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First Pages by Giancarlo Maiorino Pdf

&“Titology,&” a term first coined in 1977 by literary critic Harry Levin, is the field of literary studies that focuses on the significance of a title in establishing the thematic developments of the pages that follow. While the term has been used in the literary community for thirty years, this book presents for the first time a thoroughly developed theoretical discussion on the significance of the title as a foundation for scholarly criticism. Though Maiorino acknowledges that many titles are superficial and &“indexical,&” there exists a separate and more complex class of titles that do much more than simply decorate a book&’s spine. To prove this argument, Maiorino analyzes a wide range of examples from the modern era through high modernism to postmodernism, with writings spanning the globe from Spain and France to Germany and America. By examining works such as Essais, The Waste Land, Ulysses, and Don Quixote, First Pages proves the power of the title to connect the reader to the thematic, cultural, and literary context of the writing as a whole. Much like a fa&çade to a building, the title page serves as the frontispiece of literature, a sign that offers perspective and demands interpretation.

Author : Andrea Sartori
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 278 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2022-11-22
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9783031188503

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The Struggle for Life and the Modern Italian Novel, 1859-1925 by Andrea Sartori Pdf

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.

Author : Eric Bentley
Publisher : Northwestern University Press
Page : 136 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 1986
Category : Drama
ISBN : 0810107228

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The Pirandello Commentaries by Eric Bentley Pdf

A New York newspaper column from 1924 proclaimed: "Everybody's caught in the mazes of Pirandellism. . . . He is the great convention-smasher, and he just naturally leaves you face to face with the eternal query, What is truth?" "Everybody" is still caught in the mazes of Pirandellism. But since the 1940s Eric Bentley has threaded his way through those mazes. The Pirandello Commentaries is the result.