The search for modern tragedy :
Witt, Mary Ann Frese.
The search for modern tragedy : aesthetic fascism in Italy and France / Mary Ann Frese Witt. - Ithaca, N.Y. : Cornell University Press, 2001. - xii, 259 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
"The attempt to apply an aesthetic or literary approach to fascism remains controversial. In The Search for Modern Tragedy, Mary Ann Frese Witt explores the work of a group of European writers and artists who came to fascism by way of aesthetics. In Italy and France, she maintains, an ideological aesthetic of "Mediterranean" fascism developed to a large extent independently of German Nazism. Witt's study of the relationship between fascism and modern tragedy encompasses theoretical writing on tragedy and tragedies by key authors, including Luigi Pirandello, Henry de Montherlant, and Jean Anouilh. She looks at these tragedies in the context of their reception under fascism in Italy and in Vichy France."--BOOK JACKET.
0801438373
2001003142
Italian drama--History and criticism.--20th century
Italian drama (Tragedy)--History and criticism.
Politics and literature--History--Italy--20th century.
Fascism--Italy.
Fascism in literature.
French drama--History and criticism.--20th century
French drama (Tragedy)--History and criticism.
Politics and literature--History--France--20th century.
Fascism--France.
PQ4145 / .W58 2001
The search for modern tragedy : aesthetic fascism in Italy and France / Mary Ann Frese Witt. - Ithaca, N.Y. : Cornell University Press, 2001. - xii, 259 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
"The attempt to apply an aesthetic or literary approach to fascism remains controversial. In The Search for Modern Tragedy, Mary Ann Frese Witt explores the work of a group of European writers and artists who came to fascism by way of aesthetics. In Italy and France, she maintains, an ideological aesthetic of "Mediterranean" fascism developed to a large extent independently of German Nazism. Witt's study of the relationship between fascism and modern tragedy encompasses theoretical writing on tragedy and tragedies by key authors, including Luigi Pirandello, Henry de Montherlant, and Jean Anouilh. She looks at these tragedies in the context of their reception under fascism in Italy and in Vichy France."--BOOK JACKET.
0801438373
2001003142
Italian drama--History and criticism.--20th century
Italian drama (Tragedy)--History and criticism.
Politics and literature--History--Italy--20th century.
Fascism--Italy.
Fascism in literature.
French drama--History and criticism.--20th century
French drama (Tragedy)--History and criticism.
Politics and literature--History--France--20th century.
Fascism--France.
PQ4145 / .W58 2001