Gadda Goes to War: Translational Provocations Around An Emergency

Author:   Federica G Pedriali (Professor of Literary Metatheory and Modern Italian Studies and Head of Italian, University of Edinburgh)
Publisher:   Edinburgh University Press
ISBN:  

9780748668724


Pages:   184
Publication Date:   10 October 2013
Format:   Paperback
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Gadda Goes to War: Translational Provocations Around An Emergency


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Introduces and analyses a stage performance of texts by Italian Modernist writer Carlo Emilio Gadda When do we start going to war and why? And what did it mean to go to war from World War I to World War II and beyond, in Italy, before and after Mussolini, before and after, that is, that warring spirit of the age which keeps nations in fighting mode? Both time specific and universal, these questions are explored in this book through a unique combination of scholarly and theatrical performance based on the war diaries and a belated anti-Mussolini pamphlet by Italy's greatest Modernist writer Carlo Emilio Gadda (1893-1973). These works were adapted for the stage by actor, playwright and director Fabrizio Gifuni in 2010, and are now presented for the first time in English, supplemented with facing Italian text, a dvd of the performance with English subtitles, and an engaging, thought-provoking scholarly guide to Italy's own Joyce purposely produced for the Anglophone audience by the Edinburgh Gadda Projects Team. Key Features Introduces Italy's greatest Modernist writer to the Anglophone audience in five sections: Poetics, Circulation, Translation, Staging and ResourcesProvides a flexible teaching and learning aid for work across subject areasPresents the first significant new English Gadda translation since the 1960sIncludes the original Italian texts (with facing English translation) and the dvd of the Italian performance (with English subtitles)Fabrizio Gifuni is one of Italy's leading actors. His career successfully combines cinema and theatre. In 2011 he was awarded the prestigious Federico Fellini Prize for his outstanding career in the arts. Federica G. Pedriali is Professor of Literary Metatheory and Modern Italian Studies and Head of Italian Studies at the University of Edinburgh. She is the Founder and Director of the Edinburgh Gadda Projects, General Editor of the Edinburgh Journal of Gadda Studies and Director of the Italo-Scottish Research Centre.

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Author:   Federica G Pedriali (Professor of Literary Metatheory and Modern Italian Studies and Head of Italian, University of Edinburgh)
Publisher:   Edinburgh University Press
Imprint:   Edinburgh University Press
Dimensions:   Width: 15.60cm , Height: 1.50cm , Length: 23.40cm
Weight:   0.311kg
ISBN:  

9780748668724


ISBN 10:   0748668721
Pages:   184
Publication Date:   10 October 2013
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational ,  Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print   Availability explained
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Table of Contents

Acknowledgements; Abbreviations; PREFACE, Fabrizio Gifuni; INTRODUCTION, Federica G. Pedriali; PART I; Circulation, Cristina Olivari and Federica G. Pedriali; Translation, Christopher John Ferguson; Staging, Giuseppe Episcopo and Federica G. Pedriali; Worldmaking, Federica G. Pedriali; Resources, Alberto Godioli; PART II; Gadda goes to war – or The tragic story of Hamlet Pirobutirro, Fabrizio Gifuni – with facing Italian; Global glossary; Alberto Godioli and Federica G. Pedriali; APPENDIXGadda, heal thyself, Federica G. Pedriali, Bibliography; Contributors; Index.

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Federica Pedriali is Professor of Literary Metatheory and Modern Italian Studies and Head of Italian at Edinburgh University. She is the Director of the Edinburgh Gadda Projects, General Editor of the Edinburgh Gadda Journal, Chair of the Edinburgh Gadda Prize, Chair of the Nicola Benedetti Scholarship Fund and Director of the Italo-Scottish Research Centre. Her books include La farmacia degli incurabili. Da Collodi a Calvino (2006) and Altre carceri d’invenzione. Studi gaddiani (2007). She is currently editing A Pocket Gadda Encyclopedia (4 vols, 2013), and working on a two-volume project The Universe Stinks. Props, Gaps and Last Subjects, From Bruno to Gadda and From Freud to Foucault.

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