| ISBN13: | 9781032363899 |
| ISBN10: | 1032363894 |
| Binding: | Hardback |
| No. of pages: | 262 pages |
| Size: | 234x156 mm |
| Language: | English |
| Illustrations: | 24 Illustrations, black & white; 24 Halftones, black & white |
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Samuel Beckett?s Italian Modernisms
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In the wake of both Joycean and Dantean celebrations, this volume aims to investigate the fecund influence of Italian culture on Samuel Beckett?s work, with a specific focus on the Twentieth Century.
In the wake of both Joycean and Dantean celebrations, this volume aims to investigate the fecund influence of Italian culture on Samuel Beckett?s work, with a specific focus on the twentieth century.
Located at the intersection of historical avant-garde movements and a renewed interest in tradition, Italian modernism reimagined Italy and its culture, projecting it beyond the shadow of fascism. Following in Joyce?s footsteps, Samuel Beckett soon became an attentive reader of Italian modernist authors. These had a profound effect on his early work, shaping his artistic identity. The influence of his early readings found its way also into Beckett?s postwar writing and, most poignantly, in his theatre. The contributions in this collection rekindle the debate around Beckett as modernist author through the lenses of Italian culture.
This study will be of particular interest to students and scholars in theatre and performance studies, Italian studies, English studies, and comparative literature.
Part 1 Beckett and Italian Interwar Culture 1. Beckett?s Dystopian Trilogy, Part I: Lucky?s ?Cerebral Physiology? and the Irrelevance of Godot 2. Leopardi in Beckett?s Late Modernist Romanticism 3. Mirror Acts: Dramatic Form in Pirandello?s Six Characters in Search of an Author and Beckett?s Waiting for Godot Part 2 Beckett, Modernism and Tradition: Absurdism and Purgatorial Shadows 4. Analogymongering: Dante and Vico in Beckett 5. ?Denti Alligator? or ?Airtight Alligator?: Reading Dante with Joyce and Beckett 6. Beckett and Ariosto: Nominalist Irony, ?Perhaps? 7. Beckett?s Kickoff: Orlando Furioso as Theatre of the Absurd Part 3 Beckett, Italian Modernism and Late Modernism: Theatre, Intermediality and Testimony 8. Samuel Beckett and Italian Culture: From Dantesque Scenarios to the Theatre Scene of the 2000s 9. Samuel Beckett?s Not I ? Purgatorially Merciful? 10. ?A Theatre of Concrete Visual Images [?], a Theatre of Poetic Images?: The Staging of Neither by the Italian Video?Art Group Studio Azzurro 11. ?Company?: Beckett, Tabucchi, and Testimony
