In the Footsteps of Harlequin and Pulcinella; Cultural Mobility and Localness of Theatre 3631822251, 9783631822258

The author takes readers on a journey in the footsteps of Harlequin and Pulcinella, two well-known commedia dell'ar

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In the Footsteps of Harlequin and Pulcinella; Cultural Mobility and Localness of Theatre
3631822251, 9783631822258

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Ewa Bal (editor)
Jan Burzynski (editor)

Table of contents :
Dedication
Table of Contents
List of Illustrations
About the Author
Acknowledgments
Introduction: The Localness of Theater and the Culture of Global Mobility
Part I. In the Footsteps of Harlequin
1. The Case of the Harlequin
2. Over the Alps
3. Harlequin on Stage
4. Harlequin in Books
5. The “New Italian Theater” and Harlequin the Savage
6. The Harlequin in Poland
7. The Erasure of Harlequin
Part II. In the Footsteps of Pulcinella
8. Localness and the National Community
9. The Imagined Community in Drama
10. The Case of Pulcinella
11. The Provincial Theater
12. Erasing Pulcinella
13. Localness in the Era of Television and New Media
14. Nostalgia for Backwardness
15. Dialect Theater on Television
Part III. Determining the Place
16. The Place of the Theater
17. The Pragmatics of Theater
18. Localness and the Performativity of Memory
19. The Localness of Theater in the Era of Postnationalism
Instead of a Conclusion. Toward Utopia
Texts and Plays Quoted and Described
Literature
Index

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