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Italo Calvino and the Compass of Literature

Eugenio Bolongaro
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Author : Eugenio Bolongaro
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
Page : 268 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2003-01-01
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0802087639

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Italo Calvino and the Compass of Literature by Eugenio Bolongaro Pdf

Looking at five of Italo Calvino's often neglected early novels: The Young People of Po, The Cloven Viscount, The Baron in the Trees, The Non-Existent Knight, and The Watcher, Eugenio Bolongaro argues that these works, written between 1948 and 1963, contain a sustained meditation on the role of the intellectual and on the irreducible ethical and political dimension of literature. This meditation provides an insight into a crucial moment in Calvino's development as a writer, and allows Bolongaro to lay the groundwork for a more 'political' reading of Calvino's later work. Italo Calvino and the Compass of Literature firmly situates Calvino within his historical context - the cultural revival of post-World War II Italy - by relating these early novels to Calvino's political and critical writings which played an important role in the cultural debates of the time. This approach provides a key to understanding Calvino's work in a new light, ably demonstrating that Calvino's full literary significance cannot be understood in isolation from the politics and cultural movements of the period. One of the few book-length English-language works on Calvino's early writings, Italo Calvino and the Compass of Literatur will prove to be an indispensable tool to Italianists and literary studies scholars.

Understanding Italo Calvino

Beno Weiss
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Author : Beno Weiss
Publisher : Univ of South Carolina Press
Page : 260 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 1993
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0872498581

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Understanding Italo Calvino by Beno Weiss Pdf

Highlights Calvino's fascination with folk tales, knights, social & political allegories, & science fiction.

The Uses of Literature

Italo Calvino
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Author : Italo Calvino
Publisher : San Diego : Harcourt Brace Jovanovich
Page : 360 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 1986
Category : Literature
ISBN : UCSC:32106007555482

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The Uses of Literature by Italo Calvino Pdf

In these widely praised essays, Calvino reflects on literature as process, the great narrative game in the course of which writer and reader are challenged to understand the world. Calvino himself made the selection of pieces to be included in this volume. Translated by Patrick Creagh.

The Mind of Italo Calvino

Dani Cavallaro
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Author : Dani Cavallaro
Publisher : McFarland
Page : 211 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2010-03-10
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780786456567

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The Mind of Italo Calvino by Dani Cavallaro Pdf

At the time of his death, Italo Calvino was internationally regarded as one of Italy's greatest twentieth century writers. His approach to literature was remarkably adventurous, and he produced a thought-provoking oeuvre. It invited readers to engage themselves with radical thoughts and philosophies, an approach lamentably scarce in contemporary global culture. This book examines Calvino's works of fiction in the context of the philosophical ideas he advanced in his theoretical and critical works. His was an extraordinarily versatile mind, keen on experimenting with a dazzling variety of both fiction and nonfiction forms.

Why Read the Classics?

Italo Calvino
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Author : Italo Calvino
Publisher : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Page : 291 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2014-12-16
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 9780544146372

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Why Read the Classics? by Italo Calvino Pdf

A posthumously published collection of thirty-six essays offering Italo Calvino's invigorating and illuminating analysis of his most treasured literary classics.

The Author in Criticism

Elio Attilio Baldi
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Author : Elio Attilio Baldi
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 307 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2020-03-11
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781683931928

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The Author in Criticism by Elio Attilio Baldi Pdf

The Author in Criticism:Italo Calvino’s Authorial Image in Italy, the United States, and the United Kingdom explores the cultural and historic patterns and differences in the critical readings of Italian author Italo Calvino’s works in the United States of America, the United Kingdom, and Italy. It considers the external factors that contribute to create recognizable patterns in the readings of Calvino’s texts in different contexts. This volume therefore covers, most notably, matters of genre (science fiction, postmodernism), cultural perceptions and conventions, the (re)current image of the author in different media, academic schools, -curricula and -canons, biographical information (such as gender and background), and translation and the language in which the author speaks (or fails to speak) to us. It traces the influence of these aspects in the academic discourse on Calvino. The Author in Criticism also analyzes Calvino’s various professional roles as writer, editor, essayist, journalist, private correspondent, and public, cosmopolitan intellectual, reappraising their often little acknowledged importance for academic criticism. An important underlying idea is that the preconceived image that every critic has of Calvino before even opening one of his books is often solidified and repeated even in the most refined and complex critical analyses. This volume purposefully foregrounds the textual and non-textual parts that are usually considered peripheral to the works of an author, such as book covers, blurbs, reviews, talks, interviews, etc. In this way, this book provides insight into the reception of Calvino’s works in different countries. Moreover, it forms a broader reflection of and on important constants in the workings of literary criticism, and on the way academic discourses have developed in various cultural contexts over the last decades.

Calvino and the Pygmalion Paradigm

Bridget Tompkins
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Author : Bridget Tompkins
Publisher : Troubador Publishing Ltd
Page : 252 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2015-06-28
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781784623296

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Calvino and the Pygmalion Paradigm by Bridget Tompkins Pdf

Calvino and the Pygmalion Paradigm: Fashioning the Feminine in I nostri antenati and Gli amori difficili is the first book-length analysis of the representation of the feminine in Calvino’s fiction. Using the structural umbrella of the Pygmalion paradigm and using feminist interpretative techniques, this book offers interesting alternative readings of two of Calvino’s important early narrative collections. The Pygmalion paradigm concerns the creation by a male ‘artist’ of a feminine ideal and highlights the artificiality and narcissistic desire associated with the creation process. This book discusses Calvino’s active and deliberate work of self-creation, accomplished through extensive self-commentaries and exposes both the lack of importance Calvino placed on the feminine in his narratives and the relative absence of critical attention focused on this area. Relying on the analogy between Pygmalion’s pieces of ivory and Barthes’ ‘seme’ and drawing upon the ideas underlying Kristevan intertextuality, the book demonstrates that, despite Calvino’s professed lack of interest in character development, his female characters are carefully and purposefully constructed. A close reading of Calvino’s narratives, engaging directly with Freud, Lacan and the feminist psychoanalytical thinking of Kofmann, Kristeva, Kaplan and others, demonstrates how Calvino uses his female characters as foils for the existential reflections of his typically maladjusted and narcissistic male characters.

Italo Calvino

Italo Calvino
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Author : Italo Calvino
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 640 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2014-05-04
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 9780691162430

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Italo Calvino by Italo Calvino Pdf

This is the first collection in English of the extraordinary letters of one of the great writers of the twentieth century. Italy's most important postwar novelist, Italo Calvino (1923-1985) achieved worldwide fame with such books as Cosmicomics, Invisible Cities, and If on a Winter’s Night a Traveler. But he was also an influential literary critic, an important literary editor, and a masterful letter writer whose correspondents included Umberto Eco, Primo Levi, Gore Vidal, Leonardo Sciascia, Natalia Ginzburg, Michelangelo Antonioni, Pier Paolo Pasolini, and Luciano Berio. This book includes a generous selection of about 650 letters, written between World War II and the end of Calvino’s life. Selected and introduced by Michael Wood, the letters are expertly rendered into English and annotated by well-known Calvino translator Martin McLaughlin. The letters are filled with insights about Calvino’s writing and that of others; about Italian, American, English, and French literature; about literary criticism and literature in general; and about culture and politics. The book also provides a kind of autobiography, documenting Calvino’s Communism and his resignation from the party in 1957, his eye-opening trip to the United States in 1959-60, his move to Paris (where he lived from 1967 to 1980), and his trip to his birthplace in Cuba (where he met Che Guevara). Some lengthy letters amount almost to critical essays, while one is an appropriately brief defense of brevity, and there is an even shorter, reassuring note to his parents written on a scrap of paper while he and his brother were in hiding during the antifascist Resistance. This is a book that will fascinate and delight Calvino fans and anyone else interested in a remarkable portrait of a great writer at work.

Landscapes in Between

Monica Seger
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Author : Monica Seger
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
Page : 205 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2015-01-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9781442649194

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Landscapes in Between by Monica Seger Pdf

Landscapes in Between analyses Italian authors and filmmakers who turn to interstitial landscapes as productive models for coming to terms with the modified natural environment.

Writing Architecture in Modern Italy

Daria Ricchi
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Author : Daria Ricchi
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 197 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2020-10-01
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9781000199505

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Writing Architecture in Modern Italy by Daria Ricchi Pdf

Writing Architecture in Modern Italy tells the history of an intellectual group connected to the small but influential Italian Einaudi publishing house between the 1930s and the 1950s. It concentrates on a diverse group of individuals, including Bruno Zevi, an architectural historian and politician; Giulio Carlo Argan, an art historian; Italo Calvino, a fiction writer; Giulio Einaudi, a publisher; and Elio Vittorini and Cesare Pavese, both writers and translators. Linking architectural history and historiography within a broader history of ideas, this book proposes four different methods of writing history, defining historiographical genres, modes, and tones of writing that can be applied to history writing to analyze political and social moments in time. It identifies four writing genres: myths, chronicles, history, and fiction, which became accepted as forms of multiple postmodern historical stories after 1957. An important contribution to the architectural debate, Writing Architecture in Modern Italy will appeal to those interested in the history of architecture, history of ideas, and architectural education.

Posthumanism in Italian Literature and Film

Enrica Maria Ferrara
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Author : Enrica Maria Ferrara
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 309 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2020-08-10
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9783030393670

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Posthumanism in Italian Literature and Film by Enrica Maria Ferrara Pdf

As humans re-negotiate their boundaries with the nonhuman world of animals, inanimate entities and technological artefacts, new identities are formed and a new epistemological and ethical approach to reality is needed. Through twelve thought-provoking, scholarly essays, this volume analyzes works by a range of modern and contemporary Italian authors, from Giacomo Leopardi to Elena Ferrante, who have captured the shift from anthropocentrism and postmodernism to posthumanism. Indeed, this is the first academic volume investigating narrative configurations of posthuman identity in Italian literature and film.

Calvino and the Landscape of Childhood

Claudia Nocentini (Lecturer in Italian, University of Edinburgh)
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Author : Claudia Nocentini (Lecturer in Italian, University of Edinburgh)
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 193 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2017-12-02
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781351196857

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Calvino and the Landscape of Childhood by Claudia Nocentini (Lecturer in Italian, University of Edinburgh) Pdf

"Although never named as such, the landscape of Sanremo was a visual source for Calvino's fiction. This recurring theme provides both a link between some very different works and an insight into the autobiographical dimension of an author whose attitude to privacy is protective but detached. This work is an analysis of the criteria of representative (and of representational distortion) of a descriptive motif."

Painting with Words, Writing with Pictures

Franco Ricci
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Author : Franco Ricci
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
Page : 374 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2001-01-01
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0802035078

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Painting with Words, Writing with Pictures by Franco Ricci Pdf

Ricci's book ranges widely over Calvino's oeuvre to illustrate the accuracy of the idea articulated by Calvino himself that a visual image lies at the origin of all his narrative. The book's main theme is the difficult interface between word and image that Calvino struggled with throughout his career, the act of perception that rendered visible that which was invisible and transformed what was seen into what is read. Ricci holds that Calvino's narrative has an 'imagocentric' program and that his literary strategy is 'ekphrastic' i.e. it is characterized by literary description of visual representation, real or imaginary. The book is interdisciplinary in nature and will interest not only scholars of literature but also those who work with the visual arts and with information technology.

Hermit in Paris

Italo Calvino
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Author : Italo Calvino
Publisher : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Page : 280 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2014-11-18
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 9780544231009

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Hermit in Paris by Italo Calvino Pdf

This collection of journals, interviews and travelogues by the author of Invisible Cities has “something fascinating on every page” (The Guardian, UK). This posthumously published collection offers a unique, puzzle-like portrait of one of the postwar era’s most inventive and mercurial writers. In letters and journals, occasional pieces and interviews, Italo Calvino recalls growing up in seaside Italy and fighting in the antifascist resistance during World War II. He traces the course of his literary career and reflects on his many travels, including a journey through the United States in 1959 and 1960 that brings out his droll wit at its best. Sparkling with wisdom and unexpected delights, Hermit in Paris is an autobiography like no other. “Surprising, tart, and distinctive, like [Calvino] himself.” —Philadelphia Inquirer

Kafka’s Italian Progeny

Saskia Elizabeth Ziolkowski
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Author : Saskia Elizabeth Ziolkowski
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
Page : 313 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2020
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781487506308

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Kafka’s Italian Progeny by Saskia Elizabeth Ziolkowski Pdf

This book explores Kafka's sometimes surprising connections with key Italian writers, from Italo Calvino to Elena Ferrante, who shaped Italy's modern literary landscape.