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.
Authors
- Bibliography, etc. Note
- Includes bibliographical references (p. [321]-335) and index
- Control Number Identifier
- CaOOCEL
- Dewey Decimal Classification Number
- 853/.914
- Dewey Decimal Edition Number
- 21
- General Note
- Issued as part of the desLibris books collection
- ISBN
- 9781442678231 0802035078
- LCCN
- PQ4809.A45
- LCCN Item number
- Z88 2001eb
- Modifying agency
- CaBNVSL
- Original cataloging agency
- CaOTU
- Physical Description | Extent
- 1 electronic text (x, 344 p.)
- Published in
- Canada
- Publisher or Distributor Number
- CaOOCEL
- Rights
- Access restricted to authorized users and institutions
- System Control Number
- (CaBNVSL)thg00600244 (OCoLC)288097438 (CaOOCEL)418206
- System Details Note
- Mode of access: World Wide Web
- Transcribing agency
- CaOTU
Table of Contents
- Contents 8
- Preface 10
- Introduction 14
- 1 From Word to Image 26
- Overreaching Boundaries 27
- Of Fantasy Images and Visual Patterns 31
- Imagism: New Ways of Seeing 45
- Real Images and Fantasy Imaginings 54
- Personal Re-memberings 69
- 2 From Image to Word 80
- A Verbal Order to Visual Chaos 81
- Cosmicomics 88
- 'L'origine degli Uccelli' 97
- Visually Potentializing Literature 117
- St George and St Jerome 124
- 3 Variations on a Theme 134
- Vision and the Validity of Understanding 135
- Writing as Description 142
- Writing as Eskesis 156
- 4 Verbal Order to Visual Chaos 168
- Mapping the Seeable and Sayable 170
- Mapping Internal Geography 178
- If on a winter's night a traveller ... following a map ... discovers a painter's studio 185
- Squaring the Text 196
- 5 The World's Seamless Web 202
- Writing with Art 203
- Thinking of Art 211
- Stealing from Art 223
- 6 Painted Stories and Novel Spaces 231
- Writing and Painting 233
- Valerio Adami 240
- Domenico Gnoli 259
- Giorgio De Chirico City 272
- Conclusion: A New Point of Departure 287
- Notes 302
- Bibliography 332
- Name Index 348
- A 348
- B 348
- C 348
- D 349
- E 349
- F 349
- G 349
- H 349
- I 349
- J 349
- K 349
- L 350
- M 350
- N 350
- O 350
- P 350
- Q 350
- R 350
- S 351
- T 351
- U 351
- V 351
- W 351
- Subject Index 352
- B 352
- C 352
- D 352
- E 352
- F 352
- H 352
- I 352
- L 352
- M 353
- N 353
- O 353
- P 353
- R 353
- S 353
- T 353
- V 353
- W 353
- Title Index 354
- A 354
- B 354
- C 354
- D 354
- F 354
- G 355
- M 355
- N 355
- P 355
- R 355
- S 355
- T 355
- U 355
- V 355
