Pirandello in Context
Published on 21. March 2024
Book
Hardback
352 pages
978-1-108-42454-7 (ISBN)
Description
For students of Luigi Pirandello's life and works, this volume provides a multi-faceted view spanning the many genres in which he wrote, from poetry and essays to fiction and drama. It gives a true sense of Pirandello's remarkable sensitivity to place - from his native Sicily to Germany and Latin America - and of how his perspective was shaped by a wide range of interlocutors with varying professional backgrounds, from contemporary philosophers to fellow playwrights like Bernard Shaw, directors like Max Reinhardt and the actress Marta Abba. Diverse contributors explore the sheer genre-bending originality of Pirandello's humor, metatheatre, and fantastic tales, and reveal how profound shifts in society, culture, and politics in his time - Freud, Futurism, Fascism - conditioned not just his thought but also his meteoric rise to fame. A final section is dedicated to Pirandello's legacy in literature and drama throughout the twentieth century and into the twenty-first.
Reviews / Votes
'Any reader and lover of Pirandello will want to own Pirandello in Context. It's packed with recent scholarship and research that's very illuminating. An invaluable source book to enhance our understanding of Luigi and his Piradellianisms.' Alan Price, LONDON GRIP magazineMore details
Series
Language
English
Place of publication
Cambridge
United Kingdom
Product notice
sewn/stitched
Cloth over boards
Illustrations
Worked examples or Exercises
Dimensions
Height: 229 mm
Width: 152 mm
Thickness: 21 mm
Weight
640 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-108-42454-7 (9781108424547)
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Pirandello in Context
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03/2024
Cambridge University Press
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Patricia Gaborik
Pirandello in Context
E-Book
03/2024
Cambridge University Press
€111.99
Available for download
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Content
List of illustrations; Notes on contributors; Preface; Acknowledgements; Chronology; List of cited titles in translation and the original Italian; Part I. Places: 1. Sicily Beatrice Alfonzetti; 2. Rome Simona Costa; 3. Germany Michael Subialka; 4. France Anna Frabetti; 5. The United States Marella Feltrin-Morris; 6. Latin America Stefano Boselli; Part II. Institutions: 7. Publishing Francesca Billiani; 8. Little theatres Mirella Schino; 9. National theatres S. E. Wilmer; 10. The royal Italian academy Guido Bonsaver; Part III. Interlocutors: 11. Marta Abba Pietro Frassica; 12. Massimo Bontempelli Patricia Gaborik; 13. Gian Francesco Malipiero Anna Harwell Celenza; 14. Georges Pitoeff Anna Frabetti; 15. Max Reinhardt Michael Roessner; 16. George Bernard Shaw John A. Bertolini; 17. Benedetto Croce and Adriano Tilgher Pierpaolo Antonello; Part IV. Traditions and Trends, Techniques and Forms: 18. Humor Walter Pedulla; 19. Dialect theatre Antonella Ottai; 20. Metatheatre Mary Ann Frese Witt; 21. The fourth wall W. B. Worthen; 22. The anti-character Stefano Jossa; 23. Myth Michael Bell; 24. The fantastic Gabriele Pedulla; Part V. Culture and Society: 25. History Daniela Bini; 26. Celebrity Lisa Sarti; 27. Cinema Michael Syrimis; 28. Modernity Michael Subialka; 29. Fascism Patricia Gaborik; 30. Women Daniela Bini; 31. Religion Robert Pogue Harrison and Laura Wittman; 32. Madness Valeria Paola Babini; 33. Suicide Thomas Harrison; Part VI. Reception and Legacy: 34. Critical foundations Giulio Ferroni; 35. Avant-garde theatre after Pirandello Cindy Rosenthal; 36. Cinema after Pirandello Robert S. C. Gordon; Further reading; Index.