| Description |
1 online resource. |
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text file |
| Series |
Liber primus
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| Contents |
Early harlequinized art -- Anna Ioannovna's Italian decade -- Russifying the commedia dell'arte: Vasilii Trediakovsky and Aleksandr Sumarokov -- Ramifications of the Italian decade -- Nikolai Gogol's The Overcoat: the Italian ancestry of Akakii Bashmachkin -- The modernist revival of the commedia dell'arte -- The commedia dell'arte in Evgenii Vakhtangov's Princess Turandot -- Harlequin and his lath: Vladimir Nabokov's last novel look at the harlequins! -- From the empress Anna Ioannovna to the empress of popular culture, Alla Pugacheva -- Epilogue: the Italian Arlecchino on the post-Soviet stage. |
| Summary |
This book explores how the Italian commedia dell'arte has profoundly affected the Russian artistic imagination for over three hundred years, providing a source of inspiration for leading artists as diverse as Nikolai Gogol, Evgenii Vakhtangov, Vladimir Nabokov and the pop star Alla Pugacheva. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Arts, Russian -- Italian influences.
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Arts, Russian -- Italian influences. |
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Commedia dell'arte -- Influence.
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Commedia dell'arte. |
| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Simonova-Partan, Olʹga. Vagabonding masks. Boston : Academic Studies Press, 2017 9781618115713 (DLC) 2016052713 |
| ISBN |
9781618115720 (electronic book) |
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1618115723 (electronic book) |
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9781618115713 (hardback) |
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