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This book offers an important new look into how philosophy and the visual imagination intersect in the modernist work of Luigi Pirandello. Collecting essays from leading scholars across the world, it highlights the incredible scope and multimedia dimension of Pirandello's work and legacy.
List of contents
Introduction
Lisa Sarti (BMCC, The City University of New York) and Michael Subialka (University of California, Davis)
THEATER
Pirandello: Silent Scenes, Spoken Pictures
Julie Dashwood (University of Cambridge)
"My Portrait Come to Life!" - Visions of Self in Pirandello's Henry IV
Kyle Gillette (Trinity University)
The Display of Power from the Theatrical Stage to Domestic Life in Tonight We Improvise
Pietro Frassica (Princeton University)
PAINTING
Impressionism and the "Feeling of Disquietude" in Luigi Pirandello's Pictorial Imaginary
Carlo Di Lieto (Suor Orsola Benincasa, Naples)
Deconstructing the Self: Luigi Pirandello's Thought and Fausto Pirandello's Paintings
Daniela Bini (University of Texas, Austin)
CINEMA
George Fitzmaurice's As You Desire Me (1932) and Greta Garbo's Elusive Identity
Claudia Consolati (University of Pennsylvania)
Stolen Goods: Pirandello and Michelangelo Antonioni's La signora senza camelie (1953)
Andrea Malaguti (University of Massachusetts, Amherst)
MUSIC
In Defense of Marginalized Music: Pirandello from the 1910s through the 1930s
Daniela Bombara (Independent Scholar)
The Final Message of Art: The Fable of the Changeling Son by Pirandello and Malipiero
Daniela Gangale (Independent Scholar)
PHILOSOPHY
Reflecting on the Threshold: Toward a Theory of Cognitive Liminality in Luigi Pirandello's On Humor and One, No One and a Hundred Thousand
John Mastrogianakos (York University)
Works Cited
About the author
Lisa Sarti is assistant professor of Italian at Borough of Manhattan Community College.
Michael Subialka is assistant professor of comparative literature and Italian at the University of California, Davis.
