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

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...

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