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Hanging by a thread: Marionette figures in twentieth-century Italian literature (Luigi Pirandello, Massimo Bontempelli, Paola Masino).

Record Type:	Electronic resources : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	Hanging by a thread: Marionette figures in twentieth-century Italian literature (Luigi Pirandello, Massimo Bontempelli, Paola Masino)./
Author:	Feltrin-Morris, Marella.
Description:	229 p.
Notes:	Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 66-07, Section: A, page: 2566.
Contained By:	Dissertation Abstracts International66-07A.
Subject:	Literature, Comparative. -
Online resource:	http://pqdd.sinica.edu.tw/twdaoapp/servlet/advanced?query=3179478
ISBN:	9780542217128

Hanging by a thread: Marionette figures in twentieth-century Italian literature (Luigi Pirandello, Massimo Bontempelli, Paola Masino).
Feltrin-Morris, Marella.

Hanging by a thread: Marionette figures in twentieth-century Italian literature (Luigi Pirandello, Massimo Bontempelli, Paola Masino). - 229 p.

Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 66-07, Section: A, page: 2566.

Thesis (Ph.D.)--State University of New York at Binghamton, 2005.

This dissertation explores the presence of marionettes, puppets, and puppet figures in Italian modernism, and through them, it discusses the notions of the fantastic, the marvelous, magical realism, the uncanny, and the surreal.

ISBN: 9780542217128Subjects--Topical Terms:

530051
Literature, Comparative.

Hanging by a thread: Marionette figures in twentieth-century Italian literature (Luigi Pirandello, Massimo Bontempelli, Paola Masino).
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520 $a Among the terms and cliches used to define characters in modernist literature, one often finds references to mechanicism, artificiality, awkwardness, and the reappearing image of strings and chains that restrain the individual. Such strings and chains prevent him/her from regaining an ideal freedom of movement, speech, expression, the loss of which has accompanied the disappearance of "true" heroism. As the notion of individual falls apart together with the faith in a language capable of expressing the complexities of modern reality, the metaphor of the puppet theater becomes a suitable means to represent the pantomime of existence. And in an Italy still caught up in the last strands of realism, the possibilities afforded by a new type of protagonist that, rather than striving to imitate a harmonious humanity that would no longer be credible, points instead to its own distortions, appear quite alluring. Furthermore, this emphasis on artificiality and clumsiness also serves as a commentary on the act of writing itself, as a meta-discourse that distrusts the very means it employs.
520 $a Chapter One examines the defining features of marionettes and puppets, namely their rigidity, similarity to human beings, dependence on an external operator, and entertainment value.
520 $a Chapter Two traces Pirandello's notion of existence as a puppet-show in many of his texts, and particularly in his novels and short stories. Special attention is devoted to his use of grotesque images to awaken what he calls "the feeling of the opposite."
520 $a Chapter Three is devoted to the discussion of marionette figures in magical realism, a literary movement initiated in the 1920s in Italy by Massimo Bontempelli, and to his attempt to achieve a renewal of literature through the creation of new myths and the discovery of a magical element in everyday life.
520 $a Chapter Four focuses on the figure of the female marionette as portrayed in Paola Masino's novel, Birth and Death of the Housewife. Written well after the heyday of modernism but still heavily influenced by the avant-garde movements and especially by Surrealism, the novel is a biting attack on Fascism, and a denunciation of a society where a woman's role is predefined by her sex.
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