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Difficult Games

Franco Ricci
Difficult Games Book PDF

Author : Franco Ricci
Publisher : Wilfrid Laurier Univ. Press
Page : 144 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2006-01-01
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780889206342

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Difficult Games by Franco Ricci Pdf

Examining Calvino's literary experiments as a young artist in search of his narrative voice, Ricci explores the psychological and existential motivations intrinsically linked to the writer's need for textual and systemic patterning. I racconti contains some of Calvino's least-read works, yet these early stories address issues, present scenarios and generate a growing variation of themes that form the heart of Calvino's narrative discourse. Ricci points out that melancholy permeates Calvino's works—even at his most playful. He suggests that if Calvino's highest merit was his sense of wonder and his urge to transform and defeat obscurantism with all the joy he could muster, one must remember that his work expressed, often painfully, the limits of human rationalism. I racconti can thus be read as a catalogue of the anxieties of both the young author and postwar Italian society.

Understanding Italo Calvino

Beno Weiss
Understanding Italo Calvino Book PDF

Author : Beno Weiss
Publisher : Univ of South Carolina Press
Page : 260 pages
File Size : 46,7 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.

Marcovaldo

Italo Calvino
Marcovaldo Book PDF

Author : Italo Calvino
Publisher : HMH
Page : 131 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2012-10-26
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780544133228

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Marcovaldo by Italo Calvino Pdf

A charming portrait of one man’s dreams and schemes, by “the greatest Italian writer of the twentieth century” (The Guardian). In this enchanting book of linked stories, Italo Calvino charts the disastrous schemes of an Italian peasant, an unskilled worker in a drab northern industrial city in the 1950s and ’60s, struggling to reconcile his old country habits with his current urban life. Marcovaldo has a practiced eye for spotting natural beauty and an unquenchable longing for the unspoiled rural world of his imagination. Much to the continuing puzzlement of his wife, his children, his boss, and his neighbors, he chases his dreams and gives rein to his fantasies, whether it’s sleeping in the great outdoors on a park bench, following a stray cat, or trying to catch wasps. Unfortunately, the results are never quite what he anticipates. Spanning from the 1950s to the 1960s, the twenty stories in Marcovaldo are alternately comic and melancholy, farce and fantasy. Throughout, Calvino’s unassuming masterpiece “conveys the sensuous, tangible qualities of life” (The New York Times).

Under the Radiant Sun and the Crescent Moon

Angela M. Jeannet
Under the Radiant Sun and the Crescent Moon Book PDF

Author : Angela M. Jeannet
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
Page : 236 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2000-01-01
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0802047246

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Under the Radiant Sun and the Crescent Moon by Angela M. Jeannet Pdf

Understanding Italo Calvino's love of storytelling is pivotal to understanding the cultural and literary matrix of his lush fictional universe. A rich and vibrant critical portrait of Calvino's work.

Twentieth-century Italian Literature in English Translation

Robin Healey
Twentieth century Italian Literature in English Translation Book PDF

Author : Robin Healey
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
Page : 648 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 1998-01-01
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0802008003

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Twentieth-century Italian Literature in English Translation by Robin Healey Pdf

This bibliography lists English-language translations of twentieth-century Italian literature published chiefly in book form between 1929 and 1997, encompassing fiction, poetry, plays, screenplays, librettos, journals and diaries, and correspondence.

The Origins of Florentine Painting, 1100-1270

Miklós Boskovits
The Origins of Florentine Painting 1100 1270 Book PDF

Author : Miklós Boskovits
Publisher : Giunti Editore
Page : 842 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 1993
Category : Art
ISBN : UCSD:31822016635377

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The Origins of Florentine Painting, 1100-1270 by Miklós Boskovits Pdf

Attempts to provide a comprehensive study of the paintings produced in Florence between circa 1100 and 1270 - the scope of the book ranges from early examples of medieval art to the generation of painters preceding Cimabue. All known works of the period are included accompanied by descriptions.

Semiotics of Re-reading

Anthony Julian Tamburri
Semiotics of Re reading Book PDF

Author : Anthony Julian Tamburri
Publisher : Fairleigh Dickinson Univ Press
Page : 148 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0838639844

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Semiotics of Re-reading by Anthony Julian Tamburri Pdf

This study examines the necessity of reading retrospectively. In this manner, the reader who comes along after the composition of an author's opus may better understand the author's earlier works after reading a later one. In contrast to a reader contemporary to the text, who does not have the opportunity of 'hind-sight, ' this special reader (recto-lector) draws on information gathered from a later text in order to understand a previously composed text. For example, the relationship between Aldo Palazzeschi's: riflessi (1908) and his later manifestoes (1914-1915) amply demonstrates the value and necessity of such a reading process: this is especially true with regard to non-canonial writers as is Palazzeschi. The retro-lector of: riflessi, therefore, comes away with an interpretation both different and more complete than that which the contemporary reader would acquire after a strict canonical reading. Along with works by Palazzeschi, 'Semiotics of Re-reading' also examines poetry by Guido Gozzano and short fiction by Italo Calvino

Ecocritical Approaches to Italian Culture and Literature

Pasquale Verdicchio
Ecocritical Approaches to Italian Culture and Literature Book PDF

Author : Pasquale Verdicchio
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 170 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2016-08-23
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781498518888

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Ecocritical Approaches to Italian Culture and Literature by Pasquale Verdicchio Pdf

The essays in this volume provide a theorization of what we might call the “denatured” wild, in other words a notion of environmental “restoration” or "reinhabitation" that recognizes and reconfigures the human factor as an interdependent entity. Acknowledging the contributions of Marco Armerio, Serenella Iovino, Giovanna Ricoveri, Patrick Barron and Anna Re among others, Ecocritical Approaches to Italian Culture and Literature: The Denatured Wild negotiates the ground within the historicizing, theoretical perspectives, and surveying spirit of these writers. Despite the central role that nature has played in Italian culture and literature, there has been an evident lack of critical approaches free of the bridles of the socio-political manipulations of nationalism. The authors in this collection, by recognizing the groundbreaking work of many non-Italian ecocritics, challenge the narrowly defined conventions of Italian Studies and illuminates complexities of an Italian ecocriticism that reveals a rich environmentally engaged literary and cultural tradition.

Using Italian Vocabulary

Marcel Danesi
Using Italian Vocabulary Book PDF

Author : Marcel Danesi
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 492 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2003-08-07
Category : Foreign Language Study
ISBN : 113943716X

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Using Italian Vocabulary by Marcel Danesi Pdf

Using Italian Vocabulary provides the student of Italian with an in-depth, structured approach to the learning of vocabulary. It can be used for intermediate and advanced undergraduate courses, or as a supplementary manual at all levels - including elementary level - to supplement the study of vocabulary. The book is made up of twenty units covering topics that range from clothing and jewellery, to politics and environmental issues, with each unit consisting of words and phrases that have been organized thematically and according to levels so as to facilitate their acquisition. The book will enable students to acquire a comprehensive control of both concrete and abstract vocabulary allowing them to carry out essential communicative and interactional tasks. • A practical topic-based textbook that can be inserted into all types of course syllabi • Provides exercises and activities for classroom and self-study • Answers are provided for a number of exercises

Literature and Animal Studies

Mario Ortiz-Robles
Literature and Animal Studies Book PDF

Author : Mario Ortiz-Robles
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 192 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2016-06-17
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781134740550

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Literature and Animal Studies by Mario Ortiz-Robles Pdf

Why do animals talk in literature? In this provocative book, Mario Ortiz Robles tracks the presence of animals across an expansive literary archive to argue that literature cannot be understood as a human endeavor apart from its capacity to represent animals. Focusing on the literary representation of familiar animals, including horses, dogs, cats, and songbirds, Ortiz Robles examines the various tropes literature has historically employed to give meaning to our fraught relations with other animals. Beyond allowing us to imagine the lives of non-humans, literature can make a lasting contribution to Animal Studies, an emerging discipline within the humanities, by showing us that there is something fictional about our relation to animals. Literature and Animal Studies combines a broad mapping of literary animals with detailed readings of key animal texts to offer a new way of organizing literary history that emphasizes genera over genres and a new way of classifying animals that is premised on tropes rather than taxa. The book makes us see animals and our relation to them with fresh eyes and, in doing so, prompts us to review the role of literature in a culture that considers it an endangered art form.

Encyclopedia of Italian Literary Studies: A-J

Gaetana Marrone
Encyclopedia of Italian Literary Studies A J Book PDF

Author : Gaetana Marrone
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 2258 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Italian literature
ISBN : 9781579583903

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Encyclopedia of Italian Literary Studies: A-J by Gaetana Marrone Pdf

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Hermit in Paris

Italo Calvino
Hermit in Paris Book PDF

Author : Italo Calvino
Publisher : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Page : 273 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2014
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780544146693

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Hermit in Paris by Italo Calvino Pdf

"The posthumously published collection Hermit in Paris draws together an array of Italo Calvino's autobiographical writings that provide an illuminating and unexpectedly intimate portrait of one of the postwar era's most inventive and fascinating writers. In these pages, Calvino recounts his experiences in Italy's antifascist resistance, pays homage to his influences, traces the evolution of his literary style, and, in one of the book's most humorous and entertaining sections, provides a wry commentary on his travels in the United States in 1959 and 1960"--

The Complete Cosmicomics

Italo Calvino
The Complete Cosmicomics Book PDF

Author : Italo Calvino
Publisher : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Page : 367 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2014-09-16
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780544231931

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The Complete Cosmicomics by Italo Calvino Pdf

The complete collection of “nimble and often hilarious” short stories exploring the cosmos by the acclaimed author of Invisible Cities (Colin Dwyer, NPR). Italo Calvino’s beloved cosmicomics cross planets and traverse galaxies, speed up time or slow it down to the particles of an instant. Through the eyes of a “cosmic know-it-all” with the unpronounceable name of Qfwfq, Calvino explores natural phenomena and tells the story of the origins of the universe. Relating complex scientific and mathematical concepts to our everyday world, they are an indelible and delightful literary achievement. Originally published in Italian in three separate volumes—including the Asti d’Appello Prize-winning first volume, Cosmicomics—these thirty-four dazzling stories are collected here in one definitive English-language anthology. “Trying to describe such a diverse and entertaining mix, I have to admit, just as Calvino does so often, that my words fail here, too. There’s no way I—or anyone, really—can muster enough of them to quite capture the magic of these stories . . . Read this book, please.” —Colin Dwyer, NPR

Italian Literature since 1900 in English Translation

Robin Healey
Italian Literature since 1900 in English Translation Book PDF

Author : Robin Healey
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
Page : 1104 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2019-03-14
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781487531904

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Italian Literature since 1900 in English Translation by Robin Healey Pdf

Providing the most complete record possible of texts by Italian writers active after 1900, this annotated bibliography covers over 4,800 distinct editions of writings by some 1,700 Italian authors. Many entries are accompanied by useful notes that provide information on the authors, works, translators, and the reception of the translations. This book includes the works of Pirandello, Calvino, Eco, and more recently, Andrea Camilleri and Valerio Manfredi. Together with Robin Healey’s Italian Literature before 1900 in English Translation, also published by University of Toronto Press in 2011, this volume makes comprehensive information on translations from Italian accessible for schools, libraries, and those interested in comparative literature.

A Study Guide for Italo Calvino's "Garden of Stubborn Cats"

Gale, Cengage Learning
A Study Guide for Italo Calvino s Garden of Stubborn Cats Book PDF

Author : Gale, Cengage Learning
Publisher : Gale, Cengage Learning
Page : 20 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2024-06-17
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781410346629

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A Study Guide for Italo Calvino's "Garden of Stubborn Cats" by Gale, Cengage Learning Pdf

A Study Guide for Italo Calvino's "Garden of Stubborn Cats," excerpted from Gale's acclaimed Short Stories for Students. This concise study guide includes plot summary; character analysis; author biography; study questions; historical context; suggestions for further reading; and much more. For any literature project, trust Short Stories for Students for all of your research needs.