Living Masks : : The Achievement of Pirandello / / Umberto Mariani.
The Nobel Prize-winning dramatist Luigi Pirandello (1867-1936) is undoubtedly one of the most innovative playwrights of the twentieth century and also one of the most complex. While his influence spread throughout modernist and postmodernist works, many first-time audiences and readers are confronte...
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| Place / Publishing House: | Toronto : : University of Toronto Press, , [2016] ©2008 |
| Year of Publication: | 2016 |
| Language: | English |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Preface
- 1. Introduction: The 'Pirandellian' Character
- 2. Liolà: Beyond Naturalism
- 3. Right You Are, if You Think You Are: The Reality of Appearances
- 4. Six Characters: The Tragic Difficulty of Human Communication
- 5. The 'Powerful Logic' of Henry IV
- 6. Each in His Own Way: Mutability and Permanence in Life and Art
- 7. Opposing Aims of the Artist's Vocation in The Mountain Giants
- 8. Pirandello in Our Time
- Notes
- Selected Bibliography
- Index