Olga Partan

Vagabonding Masks (ENG)

The Italian Commedia dell'Arte in the Russian Artistic Imagination

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This book explores how the Italian commedia dell'arte has profoundly affected the Russian artistic imagination for over three hundred years, providing a source of inspiration for leading artists as diverse as Nikolai Gogol, Evgenii Vakhtangov, Vladimir Nabokov and the pop star Alla Pugacheva.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Academic Studies Press
• Seitenzahl: 294
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. März 2017
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 240mm x 161mm x 20mm
• Gewicht: 608g
• ISBN-13: 9781618115713
• ISBN-10: 1618115715
• Artikelnr.: 46997964

Autorenporträt

Olga Partan is Assistant Professor of Russian at the College of the Holy Cross, Worcester, Massachusetts. She received her PhD with a dissertation on the commedia dell'arte in Russian culture from Brown University in 2004. She has authored several articles and book chapters on Russian literature and the performing arts, and a Russian-language memoir You were right, Filumena! (Moscow: PROZAiK, 2012).

Inhaltsangabe

List of Illustrations
Acknowledgments
A Note on Transliteration
Introduction
Chapter 1: Early Harlequinized Art
Chapter 2: Anna Ioannovna's Italian Decade
Chapter 3: Russifying the Commedia dell'Arte: Vasilii Trediakovsky and
Aleksandr Sumarokov
Chapter 4: Ramifications of the Italian Decade
Chapter 5: Nikolai Gogol's The Overcoat: The Italian Ancestry of Akakii
Bashmachkin
Chapter 6: The Modernist Revival of the Commedia dell'Arte
Chapter 7: The Commedia dell'Arte in Evgenii Vakhtangov's Princess Turandot
Chapter 8: Harlequin and His Lath: Vladimir Nabokov's Last Novel Look at
the Harlequins!
Chapter 9: From the Empress Anna Ioannovna to the Empress of Popular
Culture, Alla Pugacheva
Epilogue: The Italian Arlecchino on the Post-Soviet Stage