Samuel Beckett's Italian Modernisms (eBook, PDF)

Tradition, Texts, Performance
Redaktion: Bariselli, Michela; Martino, Mario; Gambacorta, Antonio; Crosara, Davide

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

In the wake of both Joycean and Dantean celebrations, this volume aims to investigate the fecund influence of Italian culture on Samuel Beckett's work, with a specific focus on the Twentieth Century.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 262
• Erscheinungstermin: 3. Dezember 2024
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781040260074
• Artikelnr.: 72302498

Autorenporträt

Michela Bariselli is a Lecturer in Philosophy in the Department of Philosophy, University of Reading. Davide Crosara is a Research Fellow in English Literature at the University of Rome, Sapienza. Antonio Gambacorta is a translator and a literary scholar with a PhD from the University of Reading. Mario Martino is Professor of English Literature at the University of Rome, Sapienza.

Inhaltsangabe

Part 1 Beckett and Italian Interwar Culture 1. Beckett's Dystopian Trilogy,
Part I: Lucky's 'Cerebral Physiology' and the Irrelevance of Godot 2.
Leopardi in Beckett's Late Modernist Romanticism 3. Mirror Acts: Dramatic
Form in Pirandello's Six Characters in Search of an Author and Beckett's
Waiting for Godot Part 2 Beckett, Modernism and Tradition: Absurdism and
Purgatorial Shadows 4. Analogymongering: Dante and Vico in Beckett 5.
'Denti Alligator' or 'Airtight Alligator': Reading Dante with Joyce and
Beckett 6. Beckett and Ariosto: Nominalist Irony, 'Perhaps' 7. Beckett's
Kickoff: Orlando Furioso as Theatre of the Absurd Part 3 Beckett, Italian
Modernism and Late Modernism: Theatre, Intermediality and Testimony 8.
Samuel Beckett and Italian Culture: From Dantesque Scenarios to the Theatre
Scene of the 2000s 9. Samuel Beckett's Not I - Purgatorially Merciful? 10.
'A Theatre of Concrete Visual Images [...], a Theatre of Poetic Images':
The Staging of Neither by the Italian VideöArt Group Studio Azzurro 11.
'Company': Beckett, Tabucchi, and Testimony