Poetry on Stage : The Theatre of the Italian Neo-Avant-Garde /
"Poetry on Stage focuses on exchanges between the writers of the Italian neo-avant-garde with the actors, directors, and playwrights of the Nuovo Teatro. The book sheds light on a forgotten chapter of twentieth-century Italian literature, arguing that the theatre was the ideal incubator for sty...
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Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
Idioma: | Inglés |
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Buffalo :
University of Toronto Press,
2020.
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Colección: | Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Cover
- Copyright
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Note on Terminology
- Introduction
- 1 Why the Theatre? The Role of the Stage in the Theoretical Debate Surrounding the Poetry and Poetics of the Neo-Avant-Garde
- 1.1 A Bitter aperitivo
- 1.2 A Knot of Theoretical and Practical Issues
- 1.3 Contemporary Press Coverage
- 1.4 Poetry and the Stage
- 1.5 The Example of Pagliarani
- 1.6 Sanguineti and the Theatre of the Neoavanguardia
- 1.7 A "Manifesto minimo" for a Teatro dei Novissimi
- 1.8 Il Verri's inchiesta "Sul teatro"
- 2 The Italian Stage in the 1960s
- 2.1 Carmelo Bene
- 2.2 Mario Ricci
- 2.3 Carlo Quartucci
- 2.4 Giuliano Scabia
- 2.5 After 1965
- 2.6 The Evolution of Quartucci's and Scabia's Theatre
- 2.7 Brecht and "Brechtismo"
- 2.8 Artaud and the Living Theatre
- 2.9 The Convegno di Ivrea
- 2.10 Pasolini and the "Teatro di Parola"
- 3 A Few Theoretical Notes on Breath and Text: Antonio Porta and Giuliano Scabia
- 3.1 An Ambivalent Relation
- 3.2 Reasons for Convergence and Divergence
- 3.3 The Words of "corpo-voce":Oral versus Written
- 3.4 The Changing Status of the Text
- 3.5 Giuliano Scabia: An Extreme, Exemplary Path
- 3.6 Antonio Porta's Hungry Verse
- 3.7 The "Battle of Castelporziano"
- 4 An Introduction to Pagliarani's Theatre
- 4.1 Theatre as "Verification"
- 4.2 Languages and Characters
- 4.3 The Function of the Chorus
- 4.4 Exempla Devoid of Moral
- 5 Collaborations and Convergences: Pagliarani, Giuliani, Celli, and Sanguineti
- 5.1 Giuliani and "Il teatro dei Novissimi"
- 5.2 Pelle d'Asino, according to Perrault
- 5.3 Grottesco per musica
- 5.4 The Play's General Plan
- 5.5 Act Two Manuscripts
- 5.6 The Comparison with Giuliani's Povera Juliet ("Poor Juliet")
- 5.7 The Rewriting of Jarry's Ubu Roi
- 5.8 Ubu's Intertextuality
- 5.9 Ubu's Language: Interpretations and Puppets
- 5.10 Jarry's Reception in Italy
- 5.11 Seneca, Nero, and the Land Surveyor K.
- 5.12 The Rewriting of Faust by Pagliarani and Celli
- 5.13 Conclusions
- Interviews
- Interview with Valentina Valentini
- Interview with Pippo Di Marca
- Interview with Nanni Balestrini
- Interview with Giuliano Scabia
- Notes
- Works Cited
- Index