Vagabonding Masks (ENG)

• Utgivningsdatum: 2017-04-20
• Mått: 155 x 234 x 22 mm
• Vikt: 589 g
• Format: Inbunden
• Språk: Engelska
• Serie: Liber Primus
• Antal sidor: 294
• Förlag: Academic Studies Press
• ISBN: 9781618115713

• Konsthistoria
• Socialhistoria och kulturhistoria
• Litteraturvetenskap

Olga Partan is Assistant Professor of Russian at the College of the Holy Cross, Worcester, Massachusetts. She received her PhD with a dissertation on the commedia dell’arte in Russian culture from Brown University in 2004. She has authored several articles and book chapters on Russian literature and the performing arts, and a Russian-language memoir You were right, Filumena! (Moscow: PROZAiK, 2012).

"A treasure-trove of a book, Partan’s meticulously researched and thought-provoking exploration of the influence of the Italian commedia dell’arte on the Russian cultural developments in the last three hundred years will be of significant interest not only to scholars of Russian studies and comparative literature but also to specialists in theater and performance studies. Its breadth of thinking and range of reference are truly astonishing. The book offers an entertainingly readable and widely informative account of early harlequinized art forms found in Russia in the eighteenth century; Trediakovsky’s Russified versions of commedia dell’arte’s plays; Gogol’s works; Diaghilev’s ballets; Blok’s plays; and​ Nabokov’s ​​Look at the Harlequins!; as well as Soviet and post-Soviet engagement with this Italian tradition, including Vakhtangov’s production of ​​Princess Turandot and Alla Pugacheva’s artistic persona. This timely and relevant book is marked by its crisply organi​z​ed structure and lucid narration. It is also richly supplemented by visual materials that w​ill enable the reader to visuali​z​e the many-faceted forms of Russian laughter infused with merry childishness and ​the ​flamboyant spirit of the Italian artistic imagination rooted in the Renaissance culture."

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