Italo Calvino and the Compass of Literature /

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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...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Autor principal: Bolongaro, Eugenio, 1959-
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Toronto, Ont. : University of Toronto Press, 2003.
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Temas:
Calvino, Italo.
Calvino, Italo > Critique et interpretation.
Calvino, Italo > Criticism and interpretation.
LITERARY CRITICISM > European > Italian.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Electronic books.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Calvino and Post-war Italy
  • Calvino and Genre
  • Italy at the Crossroads, 1943-1963
  • The Italian Resistance and the Shaping of the Post-war Italian Intellectual
  • Il Politecnico 1945-1947: Culture vs Politics
  • Officina 1955-1959: The Poetical Potential of Politics
  • Il Menabo 1959-1967: Commitment at Sunset
  • Italo Calvino: from Neo-Realism to the Fantastic
  • Calvino and Neo-realism
  • I giovani and the Limits of Neo-realism
  • The Cloven Viscount and the Resources of the Fantastic
  • The Baron in the Trees: The Utopian Moment in Calvino's Fantastic Trilogy
  • Cosimo's Utopia
  • A Finer Fantastic
  • Engaging the Socio-cultural Moment
  • The Non-Existent Knight: Obstinacy Without Illusions
  • Agilulfo and Ethical Subjectivity
  • Pessimism of the Intellect, Optimism of the Will
  • The Watcher: The Intellectual in the Labyrinth
  • The Language of Paralysis
  • Hamlet and the Minotaur
  • Exorcizing the Labyrinth's Lure
  • Conclusion: Literature as an Ethical Project
  • What Is Literature Good For?
  • Calvino and the Parable of Contemporaneity.

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