Description
This remarkable collection of essays addresses what can be regarded as the central feature in Luigi Pirandello's work: his movingly 'poetic' fictions and dramas coexist with an intellectually sophisticated version of 'poetics'. It is precisely such coexistence that gives Pirandello a permanently distinguished position among the leaders of literary modernism on the international scene. The present volume is a very good example of the kind of international collaboration of a critical and dialectic nature that is essential in order to make advances in the general process of renewed appreciation of the extraordinary modernity of Italian literature in the first half of the twentieth century. (Paolo Valesio, Writer, Yale University)
This remarkable collection of essays addresses what can be regarded as the central feature in Luigi Pirandello's work: his movingly 'poetic' fictions and dramas coexist with an intellectually sophisticated version of 'poetics'. It is precisely such coexistence that gives Pirandello a permanently distinguished position among the leaders of literary modernism on the international scene. The present volume is a very good example of the kind of international collaboration of a critical and dialectic nature that is essential in order to make advances in the general process of renewed appreciation of the extraordinary modernity of Italian literature in the first half of the twentieth century. (Paolo Valesio, Writer, Yale University)
L'editrice: Rena A. Syska-Lamparska e Professore Associato nel Dipartimento di Lingue e Letterature Romanze di Boston College, dove insegna letteratura italiana moderna e contemporanea. Ha conseguito la laurea in giurisprudenza presso l'Universita di Wroclaw e il Ph.D. in lingue e letterature romanze presso la Harvard University. Tra le sue pubblicazioni si ricordano il volume Stanislaw Brzozowski: a Polish Vichian e saggi sulla recezione del pensiero di Vico, sulla poetica di Muratori, su Leopardi e Pirandello. Ha in preparazione scritti su Gregorio Caloprese e Italo Calvino.