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Caputi, Anthony was born on December 22, 1924 in Buffalo. Son of Anthony and Jessie (Storms) Caputi.
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Storms and Son
(Book by Caputi, Anthony)
Book by Caputi, Anthony
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John Marston, Satirist
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Loving Evie
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"This is to be the story of my life with Evie; it is also the story of a young man with great expectations who was baffled by them. I know now that not everyone has great expectations. Dreams, hopes, wild fantasies: these put you in a class with the seekers, but they do not give you expectations. To have expectations is to know that your ship is, in fact, on its way and will come in, to be sure that the palace of pleasure is at hand, that you are moving within a scenario as yet unsettled in detail but glamorous in outline, that life is for heroes and you are one of them. I felt like that: consecrated at birth to seek glories, like someone sitting on a light sled at the top of a snowy mountain looking down into curved runs and trees, waiting to push off. As the sled inched over the last hump and down, I knew I would have to steer a little, yet I was convinced too that the breathless rush and all the particular ecstasies would somehow just happen. I was underway, already aglow with the absurd freedom of it, blessed and cursed and yet too full of the life in my throat to notice, when I met Evie in the summery September of 1968." - first paragraph
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Pirandello and the Crisis of Modern Consciousness
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Luigi Pirandello (1867-1936), the Nobel Prize-winning Italian novelist and dramatist, was both a witty manipulator of paradox and a serious commentator on twentieth-century angst. In this book, Anthony Caputi treats the major plays, essays, and works of fiction as explorations of how we define who we are, the ways meaning is conferred on what we do, and how these affect the quality and content of our experience. -- Those who perceive Pirandello as a thinker fascinated by the way the mind becomes caught up in itself and trapped by its own contradictions will recognize the importance of consciousness and self-consciousness to Pirandello's work. As Caputi explains, Pirandello identified our desperate need to create artifices for living - the fictions, roles, and self-serving conceptions that give temporary focus and coherence to the individual. Caputi also examines and elucidates the crucial yet complex concepts of umorismo and sincerita. -- "Of all the great modern dramatists Pirandello is the least written about in English and the least well understood. There's a vacuum, which this book helps to fill. Caputi's central theses serve to correct a widespread misreading of Pirandello as a 'cerebral', 'unfeeling' writer. He wasn't this at all and Caputi makes a good case that he wasn't" - Richard Gilman, author of Faith Sex Mystery.
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Anthony Caputi
Edit Profilecomparative literature educator
Education
Bachelor of Arts, University Buffalo, 1949; Master of Arts, University Buffalo, 1951; Doctor of Philosophy, Cornell Univercity, 1956.
Career
Assistant professor, Cornell Univercity, Ithaca, New York, 1956-1963; associate professor, Cornell Univercity, Ithaca, New York, 1964-1969; professor, Cornell Univercity, Ithaca, New York, since 1969.
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Works
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Pirandello and the Crisis of Modern Consciousness
(Luigi Pirandello (1867-1936), the Nobel Prize-winning Ita...)
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Loving Evie
("This is to be the story of my life with Evie; it is also...)
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Storms and Son
(Book by Caputi, Anthony)
- John Marston, satirist.
- Pirandello and the Crisis of Modern Consciousness by Anthony Caputi (1988-04-01)
- John Marston, Satirist
- John Marston, Satirist
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Pirandello and the Crisis of Modern Consciousness
Membership
Served to sergeant United States Army, 1943-1946, European Theatre of Operations.
Connections
Married Marjein O'Neill, June 19, 1948 (divorced) children– David, Pauline, Mary, Carol. Married Adrienne McNair, January 23, 1981.
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Nationality
American
Education
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1949
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1951
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1956