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Metatheater and Modernity: Baroque and Neobaroque is the first work
to link the study of metatheater with the concepts of baroque and
neobaroque. Arguing that the onset of European modernity in the
early seventeenth century and both the modernist and the
postmodernist periods of the twentieth century witnessed a
flourishing of the phenomenon of theater that reflects on itself as
theater, the author reexamines the concepts of metatheater,
baroque, and neobaroque through a pairing and close analysis of
seventeenth and twentieth century plays. The comparisons include
Jean Rotrou's The True Saint Genesius with Jean-Paul Sartre's Kean
and Jean Genet's The Blacks; Pierre Corneille's L'Illusion comique
with Tony Kushner's The Illusion; Gian Lorenzo Bernini's The
Impresario with Luigi Pirandello's theater-in-theater trilogy;
Shakespeare's Hamlet with Pirandello's Henry IV and Tom Stoppard's
Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead; Moliere's Impromptu de
Versailles with "impromptus" by Jean Cocteau, Jean Giraudoux, and
Eugene Ionesco. Metatheater and Modernity also examines the role of
technology in the creating and breaking of illusions in both
centuries. In contrast to previous work on metatheater, it
emphasizes the metatheatrical role of comedy. Metatheater, the
author concludes, is both performance and performative: it
accomplishes a perceptual transformation in its audience both by
defending theater and exposing the illusory quality of the world
outside.
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The Dance of the Necklace
Grazia Deledda; Translated by Mary Ann Frese Witt, Martha Witt
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Ivy (Hardcover)
Grazia Deledda; Translated by Mary Ann Frese Witt, Martha Witt
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R949
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Ivy (Paperback)
Grazia Deledda; Translated by Mary Ann Frese Witt, Martha Witt
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Presented here for the first time together, and many for the first
time in English, are the writings that formed the genesis of "Six
Characters in Search of an Author," along with a new translation of
the theater masterpiece itself by Martha Witt and Mary Ann Frese
Witt. Although Pirandello's best-known play is now considered a
revolutionary modernist work, it did not begin as avant-garde art,
but rather in the musings of a relatively unknown Sicilian living
in Rome. The writings included in this volume display its genesis.
The idea of characters as living beings in dialogue with their
author first appears as a major theme in a short story titled
"Characters," published in 1906. Pirandello did not include it in
any of his collections of short stories, and it has not previously
been translated into English. The interaction between characters
demanding to "live" in writing and an author who rejects them would
be developed in Pirandello's 1911 story "The Tragedy of a
Character." In 1925, Pirandello conceived the idea of writing a
novel about an author who rejects the characters who come to him
begging to be put into a novel, and in a July 1917 letter to his
son, he gives the novel a title: "Sei personaggi in cerca d'autore:
Romanzo da fare" ("Six Characters in Search of an Author: A Novel
to Be Made"). In this volume Martha Witt and Mary Ann Frese Witt
provide all these materials for a complete appreciation of this
masterwork. "Wonderfully fresh and readable, consistent as well as
fluid, sensitive to the flows of the original language and yet
smooth and precise, this new translation succeeds in bringing
Pirandello's masterpiece to life once again. The introduction
brilliantly captures the playwright's sense of humanity's
unshakeable decency and moral dilemmas; the addition of a
previously untranslated short story, "Characters," enlightens the
play. English-speaking readers can now appreciate to the fullest
the creative energy of a twentieth-century literary genius." -
Valeria Finucci, Professor of Italian & Theater Studies, Duke
University A new English translation. Introduction, notes,
bibliography.
Presented here for the first time together, and many for the first
time in English, are the writings that formed the genesis of "Six
Characters in Search of an Author," along with a new translation of
the theater masterpiece itself by Martha Witt and Mary Ann Frese
Witt. Although Pirandello's best-known play is now considered a
revolutionary modernist work, it did not begin as avant-garde art,
but rather in the musings of a relatively unknown Sicilian living
in Rome. The writings included in this volume display its genesis.
The idea of characters as living beings in dialogue with their
author first appears as a major theme in a short story titled
"Characters," published in 1906. Pirandello did not include it in
any of his collections of short stories, and it has not previously
been translated into English. The interaction between characters
demanding to "live" in writing and an author who rejects them would
be developed in Pirandello's 1911 story "The Tragedy of a
Character." In 1925, Pirandello conceived the idea of writing a
novel about an author who rejects the characters who come to him
begging to be put into a novel, and in a July 1917 letter to his
son, he gives the novel a title: "Sei personaggi in cerca d'autore:
Romanzo da fare" ("Six Characters in Search of an Author: A Novel
to Be Made"). In this volume Martha Witt and Mary Ann Frese Witt
provide all these materials for a complete appreciation of this
masterwork. "Wonderfully fresh and readable, consistent as well as
fluid, sensitive to the flows of the original language and yet
smooth and precise, this new translation succeeds in bringing
Pirandello's masterpiece to life once again. The introduction
brilliantly captures the playwright's sense of humanity's
unshakeable decency and moral dilemmas; the addition of a
previously untranslated short story, "Characters," enlightens the
play. English-speaking readers can now appreciate to the fullest
the creative energy of a twentieth-century literary genius." -
Valeria Finucci, Professor of Italian & Theater Studies, Duke
University
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