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Pirandello Proto-Modern: A New Reading Of L’Esclusa, Bradford Masoni
Pirandello Proto-Modern: A New Reading Of L’Esclusa, Bradford Masoni
Dissertations, Theses, and Capstone Projects
Luigi Pirandello’s first novel, L’Esclusa, written in 1893, but not published in its definitive edition until 1927, straddles two literary worlds: that of the realistic style of the Italian veristi, and something new, a style and approach to narrative that anticipates the theory of writing Pirandello lays out in his long essay L’Umorismo, as well as the kinds of experimental writing that one associates with early-20th-century modernism in general, and with Pirandello’s later work in particular. The novel’s living in both worlds, however, makes it an interesting and problematic text. First, it gives readers insight into …
Waking Dreams: Modernist Intoxications And The Poetics Of Altered States, Jason Ciaccio
Waking Dreams: Modernist Intoxications And The Poetics Of Altered States, Jason Ciaccio
Dissertations, Theses, and Capstone Projects
Intoxication as a poetic principle is often identified with the romantic imagination. The literature of the intoxicated reverie is commonly thought of as synonymous with works such as Coleridge’s “Kubla Khan,” DeQuincey’s accounts of numerous nightmares and reveries, a number of Keats’ odes, Novalis’ hymns, E.T.A. Hoffmann’s stories, and Poe’s oneiric Gothic tales. Each of these, in part through their opiation or the incorporation of various other draughts, evokes a realm of dreams and visions of various sorts that are commonly associated with romantic poetic practices. The ecstatic trance, the sense of passing into another domain that is …