This book posits a theory for reading dramatic texts. It claims that the reading experience associated with narrative and poetry does not extend to drama; reading drama is unique. The event asks a reader to integrate two narratives, dialogue and notes, to engage in the ideation of sound, action and space in an immediate present, and to internalize a performance. Based on a phenomenological understanding of the reading process and a reception approach to literature, the book offers critical readings of Pirandello's Sei personaggi in cerca d'autore and Enrico IV and Garcia Lorca's Yerma and La casa de Bernarda Alba.
| ISBN: | 9780820423685 |
| Publication date: | 1st June 1995 |
| Author: | Catherine Arturi Parilla |
| Publisher: | P. Lang an imprint of Lang, Peter, Publishing Inc. |
| Format: | Hardback |
| Pagination: | 185 pages |
| Series: | Currents in Comparative Romance Languages and Literatures |
| Genres: |
Acting techniques Biography, Literature and Literary studies Literary studies: general |