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The drama of Luigi Pirandello /
This volume offers a survey and interpretation of all of Pirandello's plays, giving outlines of the plots and criticism, together with a biographical sketch of the Italian dramatist.
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Philadelphia :
University of Pennsylvania Press,
[2018]
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- 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