1st Edition
Samuel Beckett’s Italian Modernisms Tradition, Texts, Performance
Part 1 Beckett and Italian Interwar Culture
1. Beckett’s Dystopian Trilogy, Part I: Lucky’s ‘Cerebral Physiology’ and the Irrelevance of Godot
S. E. Gontarski
2. Leopardi in Beckett’s Late Modernist Romanticism
Andre Furlani
3. Mirror Acts: Dramatic Form in Pirandello’s Six Characters in Search of an Author and Beckett’s Waiting for Godot
Livia Sacchetti
Part 2 Beckett, Modernism and Tradition: Absurdism and Purgatorial Shadows
4. Analogymongering: Dante and Vico in Beckett
Daragh O’Connell
5. ‘Denti Alligator’ or ‘Airtight Alligator’: Reading Dante with Joyce and Beckett
John McCourt
6. Beckett and Ariosto: Nominalist Irony, ‘Perhaps’
Dirk Van Hulle
7. Beckett’s Kickoff: Orlando Furioso as Theatre of the Absurd
Manfred Pfister
Part 3 Beckett, Italian Modernism and Late Modernism: Theatre, Intermediality and Testimony
8. Samuel Beckett and Italian Culture: From Dantesque Scenarios to the Theatre Scene of the 2000s
Annamaria Cascetta
9. Samuel Beckett’s Not I – Purgatorially Merciful?
Corinna Salvadori Lonergan
10. ‘A Theatre of Concrete Visual Images […], a Theatre of Poetic Images’: The Staging of Neither by the Italian Video‑Art Group Studio Azzurro
Grazia D’Arienzo
11. ‘Company’: Beckett, Tabucchi, and Testimony
Luigi Pinton
Biography
Michela Bariselli is a Lecturer in Philosophy in the Department of Philosophy, University of Reading.
Davide Crosara is a Research Fellow in English Literature at the University of Rome, Sapienza.
Antonio Gambacorta is a translator and a literary scholar with a PhD from the University of Reading.
Mario Martino is Professor of English Literature at the University of Rome, Sapienza.
