Vagabonding Masks : : The Italian Commedia dell'Arte in the Russian Artistic Imagination / / Olga Partan.

• VerfasserIn: Partan, Olga,
• Place / Publishing House: Boston, MA : : Academic Studies Press, , [2017]; ©2017
• Year of Publication: 2017
• Language: English
• Series: Liber Primus
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (294 p.)

The iconic masks of the Italian commedia dell'arte-Harlequin, Pierrot, Colombina, Pulcinella, and others-have been vagabonding the roads of Russian cultural history for more than three centuries. This book explores how these masks, and the artistic principles of the commedia dell'arte that they embody, have profoundly affected the Russian artistic imagination, providing a source of inspiration for leading Russian artists as diverse as nineteenth-century writer Nikolai Gogol, modernist theater director Evgenii Vakhtangov, Vladimir Nabokov, and the empress of Russian popular culture Alla Pugacheva. The author presents a new perspective on this topic, showing how the commedia dell'arte has nourished a rich cultural tradition in Russia.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- Table of Contents -- 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 -- Bibliography -- Index