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Gadda Goes to War : Translational Provocations Around An Emergency / Federica Pedriali.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublisher: Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press, [2022]Copyright date: ©2013Description: 1 online resource (184 p.) : accompanying DVDContent type:
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ISBN:
  • 9780748668717
  • 9780748668731
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 853.914 23
LOC classification:
  • PQ4817.A33 Z6456 2013
  • PQ4817.A33 Z6456 2013
Other classification:
  • online - DeGruyter
Online resources: Available additional physical forms:
  • Issued also in print.
Contents:
Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Abbreviations -- Preface -- Introduction -- Part I -- Circulation -- Translation -- Staging -- World-making -- Resources -- Part II -- Gadda Goes to War - or The tragic story of Hamlet Pirobutirro - with facing Italian -- Global glossary -- Appendix -- Gadda, heal thyself -- Bibliography -- Contributors -- Index
Summary: Introduces and analyses stage performances of texts by Italian Modernist writer Carlo Emilio GaddaGBS_insertPreviewButtonPopup(['ISBN:9780748668724','ISBN:9780748668717','ISBN:9780748668731']);When do we start going to war and why? And what did it mean to go to war from World War I to World War II and beyond, in Italy, before and after Mussolini, before and after, that is, that warring spirit of the age which keeps nations in fighting mode? Both time specific and universal, these questions are explored in this book through a unique combination of scholarly and theatrical performance based on the war diaries and a belated anti-Mussolini pamphlet by Italy's greatest Modernist writer Carlo Emilio Gadda (1893-1973).These works were adapted for the stage by actor, playwright and director Fabrizio Gifuni in 2010, and are now presented for the first time in English, supplemented with facing Italian text, a dvd of the performance with English subtitles, and an engaging, thought-provoking scholarly guide to Italy's own Joyce purposely produced for the Anglophone audience by the Edinburgh Gadda Projects Team.Key FeaturesIntroduces Italy's greatest Modernist writer to the Anglophone audience in five sections: Poetics, Circulation, Translation, Staging and ResourcesProvides a flexible teaching and learning aid for work across subject areasPresents the first significant new English Gadda translation since the 1960sIncludes the original Italian texts (with facing English translation) and the DVD of the Italian performance (with English subtitles)"
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eBook eBook Biblioteca "Angelicum" Pont. Univ. S.Tommaso d'Aquino Nuvola online online - DeGruyter (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Online access Not for loan (Accesso limitato) Accesso per gli utenti autorizzati / Access for authorized users (dgr)9780748668731

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Abbreviations -- Preface -- Introduction -- Part I -- Circulation -- Translation -- Staging -- World-making -- Resources -- Part II -- Gadda Goes to War - or The tragic story of Hamlet Pirobutirro - with facing Italian -- Global glossary -- Appendix -- Gadda, heal thyself -- Bibliography -- Contributors -- Index

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Introduces and analyses stage performances of texts by Italian Modernist writer Carlo Emilio GaddaGBS_insertPreviewButtonPopup(['ISBN:9780748668724','ISBN:9780748668717','ISBN:9780748668731']);When do we start going to war and why? And what did it mean to go to war from World War I to World War II and beyond, in Italy, before and after Mussolini, before and after, that is, that warring spirit of the age which keeps nations in fighting mode? Both time specific and universal, these questions are explored in this book through a unique combination of scholarly and theatrical performance based on the war diaries and a belated anti-Mussolini pamphlet by Italy's greatest Modernist writer Carlo Emilio Gadda (1893-1973).These works were adapted for the stage by actor, playwright and director Fabrizio Gifuni in 2010, and are now presented for the first time in English, supplemented with facing Italian text, a dvd of the performance with English subtitles, and an engaging, thought-provoking scholarly guide to Italy's own Joyce purposely produced for the Anglophone audience by the Edinburgh Gadda Projects Team.Key FeaturesIntroduces Italy's greatest Modernist writer to the Anglophone audience in five sections: Poetics, Circulation, Translation, Staging and ResourcesProvides a flexible teaching and learning aid for work across subject areasPresents the first significant new English Gadda translation since the 1960sIncludes the original Italian texts (with facing English translation) and the DVD of the Italian performance (with English subtitles)"

Issued also in print.

Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.

In English.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 02. Mrz 2022)