Poetry on Stage : : The Theatre of the Italian Neo-Avant-Garde / / Gianluca Rizzo.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter University of Toronto Press Complete eBook-Package 2020
• VerfasserIn: Rizzo, Gianluca,
• Place / Publishing House: Toronto : : University of Toronto Press, , [2020]; ©2020
• Year of Publication: 2020
• Language: English
• Series: Toronto Italian Studies
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (472 p.)

Poetry on Stage focuses on exchanges between the writers of the Italian neo-avant-garde with the actors, directors, and playwrights of the Nuovo Teatro. The book sheds light on a forgotten chapter of twentieth-century Italian literature, arguing that the theatre was the ideal incubator for stylistic and linguistic experiments and a means through which authors could establish direct contact with their audience and verify solutions to the practical and theoretical problems raised by their stances in politics and poetics. A robust analysis of a number of exemplary texts grounds these issues in the plays and poems produced at the time and connects them with the experimentations subsequently carried out by some of the same artists. In-depth interviews with four of the most influential figures in the field – critic Valentina Valentini, actor and director Pippo Di Marca, author Giuliano Scabia, and the late poet Nanni Balestrini – conclude the volume, providing invaluable first-hand testimony that brings to life the people and controversies discussed.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Note on Terminology -- Introduction -- 1 Why the Theatre? The Role of the Stage in the Theoretical Debate Surrounding the Poetry and Poetics of the Neo-Avant- Garde -- 2 The Italian Stage in the 1960s -- 3 A Few Theoretical Notes on Breath and Text: Antonio Porta and Giuliano Scabia -- 4 An Introduction to Pagliarani’s Theatre -- 5 Collaborations and Convergences: Pagliarani, Giuliani, Celli, and Sanguineti -- Interviews -- Interview with Valentina Valentini, Rome, 25 March 2017 -- Interview with Pippo Di Marca, Rome, 25 March 2017 -- Interview with Nanni Balestrini, Milan, 4 April 2017 -- Interview with Giuliano Scabia, Florence, 1 April 2017 -- Notes -- Works Cited -- Index