Creating Place in Early Modern European Architecture

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
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