Luigi Pirandello: Contemporary Perspectives

✍ Scribed by Gianpaolo Biasin (editor); Manuela Gieri (editor)

• Publisher: University of Toronto Press
• Year: 1999
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 246
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

Essays discuss the texts of Luigi Pirandello, one of the literary giants of this century and present an up-to-date re-evaluations of Pirandello's works, including his poetry, novels, short stories, plays, essays, letters, and memoirs.

✦ Table of Contents

Contents
Acknowledgments
Contributors
Section 1: Introduction
1. Pirandello at 360 Degrees
2. Scenes and Texts: Perspectives in Pirandellian Criticism
Section 2: Structures
3. Pirandello’s Quest for Truth: Sei personaggi in cerca d'autore
4. Pirandello and the Theatre-within-the- Theatre: Thresholds and Frames in Ciascuno a suo modo
5. Families of Characters and Families of Actors on the Pirandellian Stage
6. The Making and Unmaking of Language: The Rhetoric of Speech and Silence
Section 3: Meanings
7. Laughter and Political Allegory in Pirandello: A Reading of ‘C’è qualcuno che ride’
8. Pirandellian Nakedness
9. Eros and Solitude in Pirandello's Short Stories
Section 4: Innovations
10. Enacting the Dissolution of the Self: Woman as One, No One, and One Hundred Thousand
11. Regicide, Parricide, and Tyrannicide in Il fu Mattia Pascal: Stealing from the Father to Give to the Son
12. Pirandello in the Discursive Economies of Modernity and Postmodernism