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Author : Luigi Pirandello
Publisher : Plume Books
ISBN 13 : 9780525470069
Total Pages : 422 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (7 download)
Download or read book Naked Masks written by Luigi Pirandello and published by Plume Books. This book was released on 1952 with total page 422 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Presents six plays by the Nobel Prize winning dramatist.
Author : Luigi Pirandello
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (49 download)
Download or read book Naked Masks written by Luigi Pirandello and published by . This book was released on 1952 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Luigi Pirandello
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
ISBN 13 : 1442642114
Total Pages : 345 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (426 download)
Download or read book Pirandello's Theatre of Living Masks written by Luigi Pirandello and published by University of Toronto Press. This book was released on 2011-01-01 with total page 345 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 : Luigi Pirandello
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 386 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (11 download)
Download or read book Naked Masks written by Luigi Pirandello and published by . This book was released on 1951 with total page 386 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Umberto Mariani
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
ISBN 13 : 1442693142
Total Pages : 161 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (426 download)
Download or read book Living Masks written by Umberto Mariani and published by University of Toronto Press. This book was released on 2008-11-25 with total page 161 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Nobel Prize-winning dramatist Luigi Pirandello (1867-1936) is undoubtedly one of the most innovative playwrights of the twentieth century and also one of the most complex. While his influence spread throughout modernist and postmodernist works, many first-time audiences and readers are confronted with the difficulty associated with such a radical aesthetic experience. In Living Masks, Umberto Mariani presents a clear and comprehensive introduction of Pirandello's major plays for general readers, students, and scholars new to Pirandello. Functioning as a guide to understanding the fundamental themes of Pirandello's plays, the author also examines the critical, aesthetic, and technical problems associated with these plays. He provides extensive reflection on some of the failings of early and contemporary criticism on Pirandello's works and offers many corrections of interpretative direction that will be significant and helpful to directors and performers. In particular, Mariani presents a deeper understanding and greater appreciation of Pirandello's works as a challenge to the tendency to adapt, and modify them, which drastically deprive the works of their original power and beauty. A concise and accessible introduction to a twentieth-century literary master, Living Masks will be of interest to dramatists, literary scholars, and students and scholars of Italian studies.
Author : Eric Bentley
Publisher : Northwestern University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780810107229
Total Pages : 136 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (72 download)
Download or read book The Pirandello Commentaries written by Eric Bentley and published by Northwestern University Press. This book was released on 1986 with total page 136 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.
Author : Robert Brustein
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 0929587537
Total Pages : 454 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (295 download)
Download or read book The Theatre of Revolt written by Robert Brustein and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 1991 with total page 454 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First published in 1964 by Little, Brown. First Elephant paperback with a new preface by the author.
Author : Robin Healey
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
ISBN 13 : 1487531907
Total Pages : 1104 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (875 download)
Download or read book Italian Literature since 1900 in English Translation written by Robin Healey and published by University of Toronto Press. This book was released on 2019-03-14 with total page 1104 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 : Nourit Melcer-Padon
Publisher : transcript Verlag
ISBN 13 : 3732841863
Total Pages : 290 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (328 download)
Download or read book Creating Communities written by Nourit Melcer-Padon and published by transcript Verlag. This book was released on 2018-06-30 with total page 290 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 : Ekbert Faas
Publisher : McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
ISBN 13 : 9780773506053
Total Pages : 244 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (6 download)
Download or read book Tragedy and After written by Ekbert Faas and published by McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP. This book was released on 1986 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Faas has written a provocative book, challenging the familiar literary and philosophical theories of tragedy from Aristotle onwards. His judicious use of nietzschean insights both stimulates and compels assent. Exuberant scholarship from first page to last." Irving Layton.
Author : John Louis DiGaetani
Publisher : McFarland
ISBN 13 : 9780786482597
Total Pages : 206 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (825 download)
Download or read book Stages of Struggle written by John Louis DiGaetani and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2015-01-27 with total page 206 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: One way or another, all playwrights use their work to explore the issues that interest them. The characters in a play may trumpet their creator’s political views from the stage, or an unusual structure or set design may result from the playwright’s interest in theatrical form. It is also common, particularly in the plays of the 20th and 21st century, to see a playwright delving into psychological issues raised by his own mental struggles or those of people he loves. Luigi Pirandello, tormented by the schizophrenia of his wife and other family members, repeatedly explored the problems caused by different visions of reality. Noël Coward’s self-obsessed characters reflect his own narcissism. Alcoholism is a recurrent theme in the works of many playwrights, including Eugene O’Neill, Edward Albee, and Brian Friel. Through their exploration of these issues and more, the great writers of the theater have turned suffering into art. This book looks at the work of 20 playwrights to see how their examination of the disturbed mind has influenced the modern theater.
Author : Douglas Radcliff-Umstead
Publisher : Fairleigh Dickinson Univ Press
ISBN 13 : 9780838619308
Total Pages : 346 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (193 download)
Download or read book The Mirror of Our Anguish written by Douglas Radcliff-Umstead and published by Fairleigh Dickinson Univ Press. This book was released on 1978 with total page 346 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Introduces to the English-reading public the seven novels and the most typical tales of that writer, whose literary fame still rests upon his achievements as a dramatist.
Author : Silvio Gaggi
Publisher : University of Pennsylvania Press
ISBN 13 : 1512802271
Total Pages : 218 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (128 download)
Download or read book Modern/Postmodern written by Silvio Gaggi and published by University of Pennsylvania Press. This book was released on 2015-08-10 with total page 218 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Silvio Gaggi's survey of the vast terrain of twentieth century arts and ideas is unique not only for its scope but also for the clarity and cohesiveness it brings to wide-ranging, seemingly disparate works. By identifying underlying epistemological, aesthetic, and ethical issues. Gaggi draws connections among such modern and postmodern masterpieces as Pirandello's and Brecht's theater, Fowles's and Barth's fiction, Warhol's paintings, Godard's and Bergman's films, and Derrida's literary theory. Modern/Postmodern begins with a discussion of the profound skepticism—about traditional beliefs and about our ability to know the self—that lies at the heart of both modernism and postmodernism. Gaggi identifies the modernist response to this doubt as the rejection of mimesis in favor of a purely formalistic or expressionistic art. The postmodern response, on the other hand, is above all to create art that is self-referential (concerned with art itself, the history of art, or its processes). Drawing from the work of Piranadello and Brecht, paradigms that can be applies to many different art works, Gaggi emphasizes how these works from diverse media relate to one another and what their relationships are to the contemporary artistic and philosophical climate. He concentrates on the works themselves, but examines theory as a parallel manifestation of the same obsessions that inform recent literature and art. Gaggi asks, finally, if self-referential art can also be politically and ethically engaged with the reality outside it. He concludes that the postmodern obsession with language, narrativity, and artifice is not necessarily a decadent indulgence but is, at its best, an honest inquiry into the problems, questions, and paradoxes of language. Modern/Postmodern is a lively approach to postmodern art that will interest all students and scholars of contemporary art and literature.
Author : Daniel S. Burt
Publisher : Infobase Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1438127065
Total Pages : 561 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (381 download)
Download or read book The Literature 100 written by Daniel S. Burt and published by Infobase Publishing. This book was released on 2008 with total page 561 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Here is the revised and expanded edition of Daniel S. Burt's fascinating assessment of the 100 most influential novelists, playwrights, and poets of all times and cultures now with 25 additional entries and some reassessments as well as 25 new black-and-white photographs and illustrations. From Doris Lessing and Gabriel Garc a M rquez to Homer and Marcel Proust, the entries provide a compelling, accessible introduction to significant writers of world literature. All of the writers selected have helped to redefine literature, establishing a standard with which succeeding generations of writers and readers have had to contend. The ranking attempts to discern, from the broadest possible perspective, what makes a literary artist great and how that greatness can be measured and compared. Each profile distills the essence of the writer's career and character to help prompt consideration of literary merit and relationships by the reader.
Author : Gerald Izenberg
Publisher : University of Pennsylvania Press
ISBN 13 : 0812292715
Total Pages : 552 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (122 download)
Download or read book Identity written by Gerald Izenberg and published by University of Pennsylvania Press. This book was released on 2016-03-30 with total page 552 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Identity: The Necessity of a Modern Idea is the first comprehensive history of identity as the answer to the question, "who, or what, am I?" It covers the century from the end of World War I, when identity in this sense first became an issue for writers and philosophers, to 2010, when European political leaders declared multiculturalism a failure just as Canada, which pioneered it, was hailing its success. Along the way the book examines Erik Erikson's concepts of psychological identity and identity crisis, which made the word famous; the turn to collective identity and the rise of identity politics in Europe and America; varieties and theories of group identity; debates over accommodating collective identities within liberal democracy; the relationship between individual and group identity; the postmodern critique of identity as a concept; and the ways it nonetheless transformed the social sciences and altered our ideas of ethics. At the same time the book is an argument for the validity and indispensability of identity, properly understood. Identity was not a concept before the twentieth century because it was taken for granted. The slaughter of World War I undermined the honored identities of prewar Europe and, as a result, the idea of identity as something objective and stable was thrown into question at the same time that people began to sense that it was psychologically and socially necessary. We can't be at home in our bodies, act effectively in the world, or interact comfortably with others without a stable sense of who we are. Gerald Izenberg argues that, while it is a mistake to believe that our identities are givens that we passively discover about ourselves, decreed by God, destiny, or nature, our most important identities have an objective foundation in our existential situation as bodies, social beings, and creatures who aspire to meaning and transcendence, as well as in the legitimacy of our historical particularity.
Author : Bodil Marie Stavning Thomsen
Publisher : Aarhus Universitetsforlag
ISBN 13 : 8771846379
Total Pages : 365 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (718 download)
Download or read book Lars von Trier's Renewal of Film 1984-2014 written by Bodil Marie Stavning Thomsen and published by Aarhus Universitetsforlag. This book was released on 2017-06-01 with total page 365 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Danish director Lars von Trier has produced more than 20 films since his first appearance with The Elements of Crime in 1984. One of the most acknowledged - and most controversial - film directors of our time, Trier's films often escape the representational production of meaning. In Lars von Trier's Renewal of Film 1984-2014. Signal, Pixel, Diagram scholar Bodil Marie Stavning Thomsen offers a comprehensive discussion of Lars von Trier's collected works. Examining Trier's experiments with narrative forms, genre, camera usage, light, and colour tones, she shows how Trier's unique ethically involving style activates the viewer's entire perception apparatus. In understanding this affective involvement, the author frames the discussion around concepts from Gilles Deleuze, Alois Riegl, Brian Massumi and others on the haptic image, the diagram, affect and the signaletic material.
Author : Francis Bebey
Publisher : Chicago Review Press
ISBN 13 : 161374661X
Total Pages : 280 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (137 download)
Download or read book African Music written by Francis Bebey and published by Chicago Review Press. This book was released on 1999-08-01 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Engaging and enlightening, this guide explores African music's forms, musicians, instruments, and place in the life of the people. A discography classified by country, theme, group, and instrument is also included.
