Will the Modernist Shakespeare and the European Historical Avant-Gardes.
Title:
Will the Modernist Shakespeare and the European Historical Avant-Gardes.
Author:
Cianci, Giovanni.
ISBN:
9783035306378
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Publication Information:
Oxford : Peter Lang AG, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften, 2014.
Physical Description:
1 online resource (312 p.)
General Note:
Description based upon print version of record.
Contents:
Cover; Contents; List of Illustrations; Acknowledgements; Giovanni Cianci Introduction: The Agon with the Bard; Part I The Shakespeherian Rags of High Modernism; Massimo Bacigalupo Yeats and Pound: A Poetics of Excess and Pastiche; Jason Harding Changing our Way of Being Wrong: T.S. Eliot's Shakespeare; Carlo Pagetti 'Where there's a Will, there's a Way': The Dialogue between Virginia Woolf and Master William; Giovanni Cianci Modernist Interpreters of Shakespeare: Wyndham Lewis and G. Wilson Knight; Part II European Encounters; Marjorie Perloff Wittgenstein's Shakespeare
Claudia Corti 'As You Disguise Me': Shakespeare and/in PirandelloSilvia Riva In Hamlet's Path: Shakespearean Etchings in Laforgue and Tzara; George Oppitz-Trotman Shakespeare's Abandoned Cave: Bertolt Brecht and the Dialectic of 'Greatness'; Vincenzo Russo Fernando Pessoa: A Peripheral Shakespearean Out of his Time; Part III Shakespeare's Irish Voice ; Laura Pelaschiar Joyce's Shakespeare; Caroline Patey Beckett's Shakespeare, or, Silencing the Bard; Annotated Bibliography; Notes on Contributors; Index
Abstract:
Why was the Bard of Avon so frequently on the agenda of avant-garde writers in Britain, France, Italy, Portugal, Germany and Ireland? This volume explores the rich and diverse landscape of Shakespearean encounters in the tormented aesthetics of pre- and post-World War I Europe. However manipulated, deformed or transfigured, the Renaissance dramatist was revived in infinite guises: verbal, philosophical, visual and linguistic. Was he an icon to be demolished ruthlessly as the expression of a stale past or, on the contrary, did his works offer the foundation for new and provocative artistic expl.
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