Olga Partan

Vagabonding Masks (eBook, PDF)

The Italian Commedia dell'Arte in the Russian Artistic Imagination

• Format: PDF

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. 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 PROZAiK, 2012).

---

Dieser Download kann aus rechtlichen Gründen nur mit Rechnungsadresse in A, B, BG, CY, CZ, D, DK, EW, E, FIN, F, GR, HR, H, IRL, I, LT, L, LR, M, NL, PL, P, R, S, SLO, SK ausgeliefert werden.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Academic Studies Press
• Seitenzahl: 294
• Erscheinungstermin: 31. März 2017
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781618115720
• Artikelnr.: 56997727

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