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The Drama of Luigi Pirandello
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Domenico Vittorini
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With contributions by:
Luigi Pirandello
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English
Published/Copyright:
2018
About this book
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.
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Frontmatter
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Foreword
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Preface
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Contents
xi - INTRODUCTION
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I Pirandello in the Tradition of Italian Letters
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II Pirandello, Man and Artist
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III Pirandello's Philosophy of Life
26 - PART ONE: IN THE WAKE OF NATURALISM
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IV Introduction
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V Humble Themes of Sicilian Life
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VI Painful Mirth and Tragedy Make Their Entrance
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VII A Humorist Looks at Virtue
74 - PART TWO: THE DRAMA OF BEING AND SEEMING
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VIII Introduction
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IX The Blinding Effects of Truth
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X Illusion and Heroism
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XI The Tumult of Life and the Aloofness of Concepts
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XII The Many Faceted Prism of Truth
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XIII Changing Character of Human Opinions
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XIV The Beauty of a Lie
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XV Madness as the Only Refuge
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XVI Dualism of Personality
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XVII In the Realm of Mystery
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PART THREE: SOCIAL PLAYS
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XVIII Introduction
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XIX The Strange Adventures of Lady Honesty
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XX Where the Law Cannot Reach
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XXI Impossibility of a Perfect Human Society
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XXII Resurrection and Immortality
211 - PART FOUR: THE DRAMA OF WOMANHOOD
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XXIII Introduction
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XXIV The Turmoil of the Irrational
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XXV The Form and Substance of Matrimony
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XXVI The Purifying Force of Motherhood
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XXVII The Power of Passive Resistance
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XXVIII The Loneliness of the Lofty
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XXIX Where the Children Are, There Is the Home
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XXX A Mystic Interpretation of Parenthood
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XXXI Only Illusion Can Conquer Death
276 - PART FIVE: ART AND LIFE
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XXXII Introduction
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XXXIII Art Does But Dwarf a Tragic Life
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XXXIV A Play in the Making
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XXXV Life Rebels Against the Fixity of Art
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XXXVI Renunciation
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XXXVII The Misery of Fame
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Conclusion
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Bibliography
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June 11, 2018
eBook ISBN:
9781512819144
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368
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For universities and colleges of further and higher education
