Dalla visionarietà didascalica dannunziana alla scena

• Main Author: De Min, Silvia
• Format: Article
• Language: Italian
• Published: Edizioni Ca’ Foscari 2017-10-01
• Series: Archivio d’Annunzio
• Subjects: D’Annunzio. Ekphrasis. Theatre. Stage directions. Denarrativisation.
• Online Access: http://edizionicafoscari.unive.it/riviste/archivio-dannunzio/2017/1/dalla-visionarieta-didascalica-dannunziana-alla-sc/

D’Annunzio wrote ékphrasis and stage directions with a strong literary connotation. His descriptions of paintings as well as opening scenes stress in particular the details, giving a poetic aura to the vision, at the same time hyper-realistic and elusive. The linguistic vividness of d’Annunzio is examined in these two forms of speech, the ékphrasis and the stage directions, to bring out the characteristics of a ‘pictorial’ theatre. The centre of this analysis is the tension between word and image, between the contents communicated by the first and the contents expressed or evoked by the latter. The article proposes the analysis of some theoretical writings and theatrical texts. At the end we suggest a contemporary feature of d’Annunzio’s theatre in term of “denarrativisation” of the theatrical scenes in a visual way.