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Author: Bernadette Bensaude-Vincent Publisher: MIT Press ISBN: 0262026201 Category : Philosophy Languages : en Pages : 341
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These essays - written by specialists of different periods and various disciplines - reveal that the division between nature and art has been continually challenged and reassesed in Western thought. Nature and art, the essays suggest, are mutually constructed, defining and redifining themselves.
Author: Bernadette Bensaude-Vincent Publisher: MIT Press ISBN: 0262026201 Category : Philosophy Languages : en Pages : 341
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These essays - written by specialists of different periods and various disciplines - reveal that the division between nature and art has been continually challenged and reassesed in Western thought. Nature and art, the essays suggest, are mutually constructed, defining and redifining themselves.
Author: Elizabeth Wanning Harries Publisher: Princeton University Press ISBN: 9780691115672 Category : Literary Criticism Languages : en Pages : 234
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Harries introduces the stories written by 17th century French women, or conteuses, female storytellers. Their stories omitted from the traditional, largely male-authored, fairy tale "canon."
Author: Patricia Hannon Publisher: Rodopi ISBN: 9789042005228 Category : Authors, French Languages : en Pages : 230
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Fabulous Identities revises traditional interpretations of the fairy-tale vogue which was dominated by salon women in the last decade of the French seventeenth century. This study of women's tale narratives is set into an investigation of how aristocratic identity was transformed by political and social realignments forced by royal absolutism or ambitious materialism. Women's distinctive contributions to the genre are defined by drawing upon various texts that articulated the century's moral, cultural, and aesthetic values, as well as upon contemporary critical perspectives including seventeenth-century historical and cultural studies. Caught up in the philosophical, political and social controversy over woman's nature, seventeenth-century women writers benefited from salon culture and their access to writing through the literary genres of fairy tales and novels, to explore new identities and expand representations of subjectivity. Women's tales can be seen as a theater for staging an authorial persona at odds with their portrait as presented in male-authored didactic treatises and in the fairy tales of Charles Perrault. At a time when the pressures of social conformity weighed heavily upon them, the conteuses highlight through metamorphosis the affective dimension together with its impact on evolving notions of personal autonomy.
Author: Enza De Francisci Publisher: ISBN: 9781781887837 Category : Literary Criticism Languages : en Pages : 200
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This book investigates the transposition of short stories to drama in the works of two leading Sicilian authors, Giovanni Verga (1840-1922) and Luigi Pirandello (1867-1936), focussing specifically on their representation of women. De Francisci argues that, once the female characters are transposed into the dramatic genre, they gain a voice of their own and thus become 'new' women whose antecedents can be traced to Henrik Ibsen's A Doll's House (1879). In uncovering the voices of the 'new' women, the book draws attention to the early actresses, namely Eleonora Duse (1858-1924) and Marta Abba (1900-1988), who were instrumental in transforming the female characters from their fictional existence on the page to their physical enactment on the stage, and were key influences on Verga and Pirandello respectively. By revealing the evolution of the female voice in the two authors' works and the added enrichment of this voice as a result of its transposition to the dramatic genre, the book offers new insights into why the narrative genre is so well suited to Verga's preoccupations, why the theatrical form is more effective in articulating Pirandello's umorismo, and what Pirandello's adaptations reveal about the way in which he comes to negotiate the transition from Realism (or verismo) to Modernism. Enza De Francisci is Lecturer in Translation Studies at the University of Glasgow.
Author: Nina daVinci Nichols Publisher: U of Nebraska Press ISBN: 9780803233362 Category : Drama Languages : en Pages : 284
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Italian playwright Luigi Pirandello (1867-1936) is one of the preeminent figures of the modern European theater. His masterpiece, Six Characters in Search of an Author, set loose a riot during its first performance in Rome in 1921. This play about six unfortunate characters abandoned by their author in the middle of a tawdry drama, is an unsettling, supremely self-conscious work that is ultimately about theatrical artifice and artistic creation itself. Pirandello and Film examines Pirandello's many efforts-none of them finally successful-to transform Six Characters into a movie. The authors examine Pirandello's views on film and its relation to theater, his varying approaches to creating a film adaptation of Six Characters, and the efforts of directors and film moguls in Germany and Hollywood to fashion a cinematic version of the play. The book also presents an array of important documents, including some that have never before appeared in English: a Prologue (or prose sketch) for a 1926 film; a Scenario (a more detailed prose sketch) prepared by Pirandello and Adolph Lantz in the late 1920s for a German film version of Six Characters; an English-language film sketch written in 1935 by Pirandello and Saul Colin; and a letter from Max Reinhardt and the German emigri Hollywood film director Joseph von Sternberg to Saul Colin regarding the proposed film treatment of the play. These documents, together with the authors' critical text, provide a detailed portrait of Pirandello's developing view of film as an appropriate medium for his revolutionary dramatic innovations. Nina daVinci Nichols, a professor of English at Rutgers University, is the author of Ariadne's Lives, Man, Myth & Monument,and two novels: Moira's Room and Child of the Night. Jana O'Keefe Bazzoni, an associate professor of speech at Baruch College, has published articles in The Luigi Pirandello Companion, Performing Arts Journal, and Modern Drama. Maurice Charney, a professor of English at Rutgers University, is the author of All of Shakespeare, Comedy High and Low, and Sexual Fiction.
Author: John Louis DiGaetani Publisher: Greenwood ISBN: 0313257140 Category : Literary Criticism Languages : en Pages : 0
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A reference companion to the life and career of Luigi Pirandello, covering his plays, novels and short stories, as well as translations of his poems. Background information provided include surveys on Italian theatre before Pirandello and the surrealism in his work.
Author: Luigi Pirandello Publisher: Courier Dover Publications ISBN: 0486159191 Category : Drama Languages : en Pages : 68
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This famous drama, an expressionistic parable by the Nobel Prize–winning playwright, explores such themes as the relativity of truth, the vanity and necessity of illusion, and the instability of human personalities.
Author: Bernadette Bensaude-Vincent
Author: Bernadette Bensaude-Vincent
Author: Elizabeth Wanning Harries
Author: Patricia Hannon
Author: Tom Bishop
Author: Enza De Francisci
Author: Nina daVinci Nichols
Author: John Louis DiGaetani![Luigi Pirandello, 1867-1936 [by] Walter Starkie PDF](https://books.google.com/books/content/images/frontcover/FdSu2uF4kbcC?fife=w80-h100)
Author: Walter Starkie
Author: Luigi Pirandello
Author: Luigi Pirandello