Description
Book SynopsisPoetry on Stage focuses on exchanges between the writers of the Italian neo-avant-garde with the actors, directors, and playwrights of the Nuovo Teatro. The book sheds light on a forgotten chapter of twentieth-century Italian literature, arguing that the theatre was the ideal incubator for stylistic and linguistic experiments and a means through which authors could establish direct contact with their audience and verify solutions to the practical and theoretical problems raised by their stances in politics and poetics. A robust analysis of a number of exemplary texts grounds these issues in the plays and poems produced at the time and connects them with the experimentations subsequently carried out by some of the same artists.
In-depth interviews with four of the most influential figures in the field critic Valentina Valentini, actor and director Pippo Di Marca, author Giuliano Scabia, and the late poet Nanni Balestrini conclude the volume, providing invaluable fi
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"The copious literature on the poetic Neoavanguardia has long obscured a clearly necessary analysis of parallel experiences of the same authors. This monograph decentralises the anthologies that have now been canonized, and to which the critical attention is almost utterly devoted, and has the potential to inaugurate a more diffuse consideration of the understudied theatre (re-)writings." -- Marzia D’Amico, University of Oxford * Annali d’italianistica *
Table of Contents
Introduction Note on Terminology 1. Why the Theatre? The Role of the Stage in the Theoretical Debate Surrounding the Poetry and Poetics of the Neo-Avant-Garde 2. The Italian Stage in the 1960s 3. A Few Theoretical Notes on Breath and Text 4. An Introduction to Pagliarani’s Theatre 5. Collaborations and Convergences: Pagliarani, Giuliani, Celli, and Sanguineti Interview with Valentina Valentini Interview with Pippo Di Marca Interview with Nanni Balestrini Interview with Giuliano Scabia Works Cited
