The Modern Language Association Convention

Washington, D.C.

December 28 and 30

Power and the Grotesque in Pirandellian Narrative, Theater, and Film I

“Broken Dolls and Hanging Puppets: Pirandello’s Grotesque Bodies,” Marella Feltrin-Morris, Ithaca College

“The Grotesque in the First English Translations of Six Characters in Search of an Author and Henry IV,” Valeria Petrocchi, Università per Stranieri, Perugia

“Silent Spectacles: The Art of the Obscene in Pirandello’s Theater,” Dragoslav Momcilovic, Univ. of Wisconsin, Madison

Power and the Grotesque in Pirandellian Narrative, Theater, and Film II

Presiding: Giuseppe Faustini, Skidmore Coll.

“The Power of the Role and the Role of Power in Quando si è qualcuno,” David S. Escoffery, Southwest Missouri State Univ.

“Pirandello and Cinema: The Unfinished Project of La nuova colonia,” Stefano Giannini, Wesleyan Univ.