The Drama of Luigi Pirandello / Domenico Vittorini.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Vittorini, Domenico, author.

Contributor:

Pirandello, Luigi.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Pirandello, Luigi, 1867-1936--Criticism and interpretation.

Pirandello, Luigi.

Italian drama.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (368 pages)

Place of Publication:

Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press, [2018]

Language Note:

In English.

Summary:

Pirandello, winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature, is a little known to most English readers. Too few of his plays and stories have been translated. This hook, therefore, serves the double purpose of introducing the Italian genius through a summary of all his dramatic work and interpreting his accomplishments fron an artistic viewpoint.As a background for his criticism, the Domenico Vittorini shows first how Pirandello's compassionate pessimism and tragic mockery resulted from his own tortured existence and in what way his art is relates to Italian literary tradition and contemporary thought. Proceeding chronologically, Pirandello's growth is traced from the elementary naturalism of his early writing, through his more reflective plays, to the crowning achievements of later years in which dramatic situations are approached from a highly intellectualized point of view.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Foreword / Pirandello, Luigi

Preface

Contents

INTRODUCTION

I Pirandello in the Tradition of Italian Letters

II Pirandello, Man and Artist

III Pirandello's Philosophy of Life

PART ONE: IN THE WAKE OF NATURALISM

IV Introduction

V Humble Themes of Sicilian Life

VI Painful Mirth and Tragedy Make Their Entrance

VII A Humorist Looks at Virtue

PART TWO: THE DRAMA OF BEING AND SEEMING

VIII Introduction

IX The Blinding Effects of Truth

X Illusion and Heroism

XI The Tumult of Life and the Aloofness of Concepts

XII The Many Faceted Prism of Truth

XIII Changing Character of Human Opinions

XIV The Beauty of a Lie

XV Madness as the Only Refuge

XVI Dualism of Personality

XVII In the Realm of Mystery

PART THREE: SOCIAL PLAYS

XVIII Introduction

XIX The Strange Adventures of Lady Honesty

XX Where the Law Cannot Reach

XXI Impossibility of a Perfect Human Society

XXII Resurrection and Immortality

PART FOUR: THE DRAMA OF WOMANHOOD

XXIII Introduction

XXIV The Turmoil of the Irrational

XXV The Form and Substance of Matrimony

XXVI The Purifying Force of Motherhood

XXVII The Power of Passive Resistance

XXVIII The Loneliness of the Lofty

XXIX Where the Children Are, There Is the Home

XXX A Mystic Interpretation of Parenthood

XXXI Only Illusion Can Conquer Death

PART FIVE: ART AND LIFE

XXXII Introduction

XXXIII Art Does But Dwarf a Tragic Life

XXXIV A Play in the Making

XXXV Life Rebels Against the Fixity of Art

XXXVI Renunciation

XXXVII The Misery of Fame

Conclusion

Bibliography

Notes:

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 26. Mrz 2019)

ISBN:

9781512819144

151281914X

OCLC:

1030303646