Thorough presentation of Pirandello's concepts of drama, reality, stage innovation, and parallels with the theater of Samuel Beckett.
- Cover
- Contents
- Preface
- Introduction
- Chapter One: PIRANDELLO AND PIRANDELLISM
- Pirandellism as Critical Term
- Drama, Reality, and Stage Innovation
- Pirandello and Beckett Parallel
- Chapter Two: PIRANDELLO AND BECKETT: ESTHETIC RELEVANCE
- On Humor and Proust
- The Mirror Image
- Feeling of the Opposite
- Chapter Three: DRAMATURGICAL FRAMEWORK
- Characterization
- Play-within-a Play
- Form-Content and Artistic Enterprise
- Dramaturgical differentiation
- Chapter Four: THE UNREALITY OF THE REAL
- Philosophical Formulations
- Absence of Logic
- Epistemological Incertitude
- Fragmenting Wholeness/Elusive Meaning
- Multiple and Disintegrating Personality
- Real or Unreal?
- Chapter Five: COMEDY OF SURFACE APPEARANCE
- Incongruity
- Tedium of Existence
- Vita-Forma Conflict
- Conclusion
- Index