Michael Buonanno's Sicilian Epic and the Marionette Theater PDF

By Michael Buonanno

ISBN-10: 0786477679

ISBN-13: 9780786477678

This learn analyzes the folkloric genres that contain the repertoire of the marionette theater in Sicily. right here, epic, farce, saints’ lives, bandits’ lives, fairytales, Christian fable, and town legend provide the cars wherein puppeteers remark upon, critique—perhaps even negotiate—the relationships one of the significant sessions of Sicilian society: the aristocracy, the folks, the clergy and the Mafia. The lynchpin of the repertoire is the Carolingian Cycle and, particularly, a latest model of The tune of Roland recognized in Sicily as The demise of the Paladins, a textual content which illustrates the skill in which the Carolingian heroes—Charlemagne, Roland, Renaud, Ganelon, and Angelica—augment saints, bandits, Biblical figures and Sicilian people heroes to supply the marionette theater its rhetorical functionality: the articulation and dissemination of the instruments of Sicilian identity.

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