PSA XXXVII, 2025
Special Issue on “Pirandello and Alienation: Man, Modernity,Technology”
Editors: Michael Subialka and Lisa Sarti
Guest Editors: Ana Ilievska and Andrea Sartori
Managing Editor: Laura A. Lucci
TABLE OF CONTENTS
Editors’ Note
Lisa Sarti and Michael Subialka
Guest Editors’ Introduction
Ana Ilievska and Andrea Sartori
In Memoriam
AGAINST ALL ODDS: THE LEGACY OF GIUSEPPE FAUSTINI (1949-2024)
Giuseppe Bolognese
REMEMBERING PROFESSOR UMBERTO MARIANI (1927-2024)
Simona Wright
ESSAYS
ALIENATIO MENTIS, HUMOR, CONTEMPLATION. LUIGI PIRANDELLO AND THE POETICS OF DISINTEREST
Davide Savio
“IS THERE ANY LOGIC?”: GROUNDLESSNESS, THE POSSIBLE, AND EMPATHY IN LUIGI PIRANDELLO’S “THE TRAGEDY OF A CHARACTER” (1911)
Andrea Sartori
RE-TRACING THE INDIVIDUAL IN THE LATE MATTIA PASCAL: ON DEMOCRACY'S SUICIDAL TENDENCIES
Nicholas Straehl
IMAGINED ORDERS: LIMINAL AGENCY IN THE LATE MATTIA PASCAL
John Mastrogianakos
PIRANDELLIAN REFLECTIONS IN BLACK MIRROR
Alessio Aletta
WOMEN AND ALIENATION FROM NARRATIVE TO THEATER IN PIRANDELLO’S WORKS
Daniela Bini
MY BODY/MY MONSTER: AUTOBIOGRAPHY AND TESTIMONY IN PIRANDELLO’S QUADERNI DI SERAFINO GUBBIO OPERATORE
Amanda Recupero
ALIENATED FROM NATURE: SULFUR EXTRACTION AND PIRANDELLO’S ENVIRONMENTAL SENSIBILITY
Roberto Ferrini
WORDS, SILENCE: SERAFINO YESTERDAY AND TODAY
Antonio Sichera
ALIENAZIONE IN I VECCHI E I GIOVANI BY LUIGI PIRANDELLO
Maria Rosaria Vitti-Alexander
DRAMATURGIES
PIRANDELLIAN DRAMATURGIES, FOURTH EDITION: NON-HUMAN ACTORS
Stefano Boselli
HOW COULD YOU?
R. Johns
MILAN AND AROUND THE WORLD IN SECONDS
Joshua Piper
LET’S GET IT OVER WITH
Timothy Krause
THE CHOICE
Nick Gabriel
BOOK & PERFORMANCE REVIEWS
[BOOK REVIEW] ROSA ERRICO. PIRANDELLO E HUSSERL: DALL’ESTETICA DELLA FANTASIA AL LINGUAGGIO [PIRANDELLO AND HUSSERL: FROM THE AESTHETICS OF FANTASY TO LANGUAGE]. PISA AND ROME: RUBBETTINO, 2022.
Michael Subialka
[PERFORMANCE REVIEW] STAGING SICILIAN HERITAGE: TARARÀ AND THE ART OF TRANSLATING PIRANDELLO FOR GLOBAL AUDIENCES
Lisa Sarti
[PERFORMANCE REVIEW] SIX CHARACTERS IN SEARCH OF AN AUTHOR. ADAPTED BY NICK GABRIEL
Daniela Bini
[PERFORMANCE REVIEW] SIX CHARACTERS IN SEARCH OF AN AUTHOR. ADAPTED AND DIRECTED BY NICK GABRIEL IN SAN DIEGO, CA.
Antonio Iannotta