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In the wake of both Joycean and Dantean celebrations, this volume aims to investigate the fecund influence of Italian culture on Samuel Beckett’s work, with a specific focus on the twentieth century. Located at the intersection of historical avant-garde movements and a renewed interest in tradition, Italian modernism reimagined Italy and its culture, projecting it beyond the shadow of fascism. Following in Joyce’s footsteps, Samuel Beckett soon became an attentive reader of Italian modernist authors. These had a profound effect on his early work, shaping his artistic identity. The influence of his early readings found its way also into Beckett’s postwar writing and, most poignantly, in his theatre. The contributions in this collection rekindle the debate around Beckett as modernist author through the lenses of Italian culture. This study will be of particular interest to students and scholars in theatre and performance studies, Italian studies, English studies, comparative literature.

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Author:   Michela Bariselli ,  Davide Crosara ,  Antonio Gambacorta ,  Mario Martino
Publisher:   Taylor & Francis Ltd
Imprint:   Routledge
ISBN:  

9781032363899

ISBN 10:   1032363894
Pages:   304
Publication Date:   03 December 2024
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Professional and scholarly ,  Tertiary & Higher Education ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Forthcoming
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Table of Contents

List of Contributors Introduction Davide Crosara, Beckett’s Italian Modernity Part I. Beckett and Italian Interwar Culture Stanley E. Gontarski, Beckett’s Dystopian Trilogy, Part I: Lucky's ‘Cerebral physiology’ and the Irrelevance of Godot Andre Furlani, Leopardi in Beckett’s Late Modernist Romanticism Livia Sacchetti, Mirroring Acts. Dramatic Form in Pirandello and Beckett Part II. Beckett, Modernism and Tradition: Absurdism and Purgatorial Shadows Daragh O’Connell, Analogymongering: Dante and Vico in Beckett John McCourt, ‘Denti Alligator’ or ‘airtight alligator’: Reading Dante with Joyce and Beckett Dirk Van Hulle, Beckett and Ariosto: Nominalist Irony, ‘perhaps’ Manfred Pfister, Beckett’s Kickoff: Orlando Furioso as Theatre of the Absurd Part III. Beckett, Italian Modernism and Late Modernism: Theatre, Intermediality and Testimony Annamaria Cascetta, Samuel Beckett and Italian Culture: from Dantesque Scenarios to the Theatre Scene of the 2000s. Corinna Salvadori Lonergan, Samuel Beckett's Not I – Purgatorially Merciful? Grazia D’Arienzo, ‘A theatre of concrete visual images, a theatre of poetic images.’ The Staging of Neither by the Italian Video-Artistic Group Studio Azzurro Luigi Pinton, ‘Company’: Tabucchi, Beckett and Testimony Afterword Enoch Brater, Aging with Beckett in Italy, Online and Elsewhere Index

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Michela Bariselli is a Lecturer in Philosophy at the University of Reading, Department of Philosophy. Davide Crosara is a Research Fellow in English Literature at the University of Rome, Sapienza. Antonio Gambacorta is a translator and a literary scholar with a PhD from the University of Reading. Mario Martino is Professor of English Literature at the University of Rome, Sapienza.

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