Pirandello's Visual Philosophy - Imagination and Thought across Media (Hardcover)

This collection draws on cutting-edge work that crosses traditional disciplinary boundaries to offer new perspectives on the importance of visuality and the imagination in the work of Luigi Pirandello, the great Italian modernist. The volume re-examines traditional critical notions central to the study of Pirandello by focusing on the importance of the visual imagination in his poetics and aesthetics, an area of multimedia investigation which has not yet received ample attention in English-language books. Putting scholarship on Pirandello in conversation with new work on the multimedia dimensions of modernism, the volume examines how Pirandello worked across and was adapted through multiple media. It also brings Pirandello into a cross-disciplinary dialogue with new approaches to Italian cultural studies to show how his work remains relevant to scholarly conversations across the field. The essays in this collection highlight the ways in which Pirandello is engaged not only in literature and theatre but also in the visual arts, film, and music. At the same time, they emphasize the ways in which this multimedia creativity enables Pirandello to pursue complex philosophical thoughts, and how scholars' interpretation of his works can provide new insights into problems facing us today. Crossing from aesthetics and a study of modernist notions of creative imagination into studies of multimedia works and adaptations, the volume argues that Pirandello should be understood as a thinker in images whose legacy can be felt across the arts and into the realm of 21st-century theories of literary cognition.

General

Imprint:	Fairleigh Dickinson University Press
Country of origin:	United States
Series:	The Fairleigh Dickinson University Press Series in Italian Studies
Release date:	May 2017
Editors:	Lisa Sarti • Michael Subialka
Contributors:	Daniela Bini • Daniela Bombara • Claudia Consolati • Julie Dashwood • Carlo Di Lieto • Pietro Frassica • Daniela Gangale • Kyle Gillette
Dimensions:	240 x 158 x 20mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Hardcover
Pages:	232
ISBN-13:	978-1-68393-028-0
Categories:	Books > Language & Literature > Literature: history & criticism > Literary studies > 19th century Books > Language & Literature > Literature: history & criticism > Poetry & poets > General Books > Humanities > Philosophy > Topics in philosophy > Aesthetics Books > Philosophy > Topics in philosophy > Aesthetics
LSN:	1-68393-028-2
Barcode:	9781683930280

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