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In the footsteps of Harlequin and Pulcinella : cultural mobility and localness of theatre / Ewa Bal.
Kislak Center for Special Collections - Furness Shakespeare Library (Van Pelt 628) PQ4141 .B35 2020
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Bal, Ewa, 1973- author.
- Series:
- Interdisciplinary studies in performance ; vol. 24.
- Interdisciplinary Studies in Performance ; vol. 24
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Italian drama--History and criticism--17th century.
- Italian drama.
- Italian drama--18th century--History and criticism.
- Commedia dell'arte--History and criticism.
- Commedia dell'arte.
- Genre:
- Criticism, interpretation, etc.
- Physical Description:
- 392 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 22 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Berlin : Peter Lang, 2020.
- Summary:
- "The author takes readers on a journey in the footsteps of Harlequin and Pulcinella, two well-known commedia dell?arte masks, to show the historically fluctuating way in which they participated in building 'Italianness' in the eyes of foreign theatre audiences (the history of the Harlequin mask in France, Italy and Poland in the XVII and XVIII century) and local ones (the history of the Pulcinella mask, or the Italian dialect theatre of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, which historians, at a certain point, erased from the process of the creation and construction of the Italian national community). Using modern performance studies methodologies, this book effectively cuts the distance between past and present theatre practices, opening new prospects for an active and clearly situated epistemology for theatre studies, cultural studies, media studies, and performance studies."-- Provided by publisher
- Contents:
- Machine generated contents note: pt. I In the Footsteps of Harlequin
- ch. 1 The Case of the Harlequin
- ch. 2 Over the Alps
- ch. 3 Harlequin on Stage
- ch. 4 Harlequin in Books
- ch. 5 The "New Italian Theater" and Harlequin the Savage
- ch. 6 The Harlequin in Poland
- ch. 7 The Erasure of Harlequin
- pt. II In the Footsteps of Pulcinella
- ch. 8 Localness and the National Community
- ch. 9 The Imagined Community in Drama
- ch. 10 The Case of Pulcinella
- ch. 11 The Provincial Theater
- ch. 12 Erasing Pulcinella
- ch. 13 Localness in the Era of Television and New Media
- ch. 14 Nostalgia for Backwardness
- ch. 15 Dialect Theater on Television
- pt. III Determining the Place
- ch. 16 The Place of the Theater
- ch. 17 The Pragmatics of Theater
- ch. 18 Localness and the Performativity of Memory
- ch. 19 The Localness of Theater in the Era of Postnationalism.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 361-370) and index.
- Local Notes:
- Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Horace Howard Furness Memorial Fund.
- ISBN:
- 9783631822258
- 3631822251
- OCLC:
- 1159865584
- Publisher Number:
- 99990375196
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