The search for modern tragedy : aesthetic fascism in Italy and France / Mary Ann Frese Witt.

Author/creator Witt, Mary Ann Frese
Format Book
Publication InfoIthaca : Cornell University Press, 2001.
Descriptionxii, 259 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
Subjects
Italian drama--20th century. --History and criticism.
Italian drama (Tragedy)--History and criticism.
Fascism--Italy.
Politics and literature--Italy. --History. --20th century.
Fascism in literature.
French drama--20th century. --History and criticism.
French drama (Tragedy)--History and criticism.
Politics and literature--France. --History. --20th century.
Fascism--France.

Contents Theatricality and tragedy in fascist Italy -- D'Annunzio's Nietzschean tragedy and the aesthetic politics of fusion -- Pirandellian fascism, metatragedy, and myth -- French aesthetic fascism in the 1930s on tragic grandeur and purity -- Aesthetic fascism and French modern tragedy under the German occupation: montherlandt and Annouilh.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references and index.
LCCN 2001003142
ISBN0801438373 (cloth : alk. paper)

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Joyner General Stacks PQ4145 .W58 2001 ✔ Available Place Hold