Joanne Pajarito Pegiña

A Structuralist Reading on the Selected Fictions by Luigi Pirandello: an Effective and Practical Approach to Reading L. Pirandello Using the Poetics of Todorov, Saussure, and Troubetzkoy Joanne Pajarito Pegiña

This monograph offers an effective and practical approach to facilitate reading on Luigi Pirandello's works. Using the Structuralist models of Todorov, Saussure, and Troubetzkoy in disclosing the recurring theme in the ten short stories, teachers of English especially at secondary schools will discover a means to resolve issues on whether to sacrifice the essence of Literature over lessons on language in an English Communication Arts classroom where the interface of language and literature approach is commonly practiced. The quite technical discussions on the linguistic features of the texts followed by their philosophical inclinations, that is rather referred to as the Pirandellan Aesthetics, in itself is an interesting interplay to witness and experience.