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Pulcinella's Brood : Popular Culture in the Enlightenment.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Raizen, Karen T.
- Series:
- Toronto Italian Studies
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Enlightenment--Europe.
- Enlightenment.
- Popular culture--Europe--History--18th century.
- Popular culture.
- Popular culture--Europe--History--17th century.
- Commedia dell'arte--History and criticism.
- Commedia dell'arte.
- Punchinello (Fictitious character)--Influence.
- Punchinello (Fictitious character).
- Genre:
- Electronic books.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (384 pages)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Toronto : University of Toronto Press, 2024.
- Summary:
- "Pulcinella, a Neapolitan clown born of the commedia dell’arte tradition, went viral in Europe in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. He was an unlikely hero, grotesque in his mannerisms, with a bulging belly, occasional hunchback, and an insatiable desire for macaroni. Still, this bulbous misfit took his place next to kings, caliphs, and intellectual heavyweights. Pulcinella’s Brood traces the transnational arc of the Enlightenment-era Pulcinella, from his native Naples to Paris, from Rome to London. The book explores how Pulcinella was inserted into discourses about social order, aesthetics, and politics--how he became a revolutionary, a critic of the Catholic Church, and a champion of education. It examines how Pulcinella, along with his transnational brood, was a constant, pervasive presence during the Enlightenment and a squeaky-voiced participant in the ideological and theoretical debates that defined the era. Exploring the diffusion of Italian popular comedy throughout Europe, Pulcinella’s Brood proposes that Pulcinella, a grotesque, food-obsessed clown, can be wielded as a historical disruptor and a rich and dynamic source for casting both the Enlightenment and our contemporary world in a different light."-- Provided by publisher.
- Contents:
- Pulcinella’s Multiplicity in the Casamarciano Scenari
- Polichinelle Takes Paris (with Grill and Tongs)
- Academic Eats: Pulcinella on the Roman Stage
- Domenico Tiepolo’s Divertimento per li regazzi and the Miseducation of Pulcinella
- Pulcinella as Political Puppet
- Postscript.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.
- ISBN:
- 9781487555801
- 1487555806
- 9781487555795
- 1487555792
- OCLC:
- 1435631647
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