Research Catalog

Title

The plays and fiction of Luigi Pirandello : selected essays / by Anne Paolucci.

Author

Paolucci, Anne

Publication

Middle Village, NY. : Griffon House Pub., c2009.

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Description

ix, 214 p. : ill.; 22 cm.

Subject

• Pirandello, Luigi, 1867-1936 > Criticism and interpretation
• Pirandello, Luigi

Genre/Form

• Aufsatzsammlung.
• Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

pt. 1 : Background and reputation -- Introduction to Pirandello's theatre -- Pirandello, "Father of the contemporary theatre" -- Pirandello and the waiting stage of the absurd (with some observations on the new "critical language") -- Bentley on Pirandello : forty years later -- pt. 2 : Critical analysis -- Research notes, Chronicle of Higher Education, June 12, 1991 (Review of "Sicilian themes and the restructured stage") -- Sicilian themes and the restructured stage : the dialectic of fiction and drama in the work of Luigi Pirandello -- Narrative in Pirandello's plays -- The new humor. Comedy and paradox in Pirandello's plays (an Hegelian perspective) -- Dramatic argument on stage -- The creative will. The psychology of the alienated : the women in Pirandello's plays -- pt. 3 : Comparative studies -- Pirandello's Liola and Machiavelli's Mandragola -- Monolog drama : Paul Claudel and Luigi Pirandello -- "Improvisation" as "script" : Carlo Goldoni and Luigi Pirandello -- pt. 4 : The larger view -- Toward a national theatre -- "Pirandello's introduction to the Italian theatre" (translated by Anne Paolucci).

ISBN

• 9781932107272 (pbk.)
• 1932107274 (pbk.)

LCCN

^^2009504140

OCLC

• 317588176
• SCSB-12460969

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library