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.
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- Bibliography, etc. Note
- Includes bibliographical references (p. [221]-233) and index
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- CaOOCEL
- Dewey Decimal Classification Number
- 853/.914
- Dewey Decimal Edition Number
- 21
- General Note
- Issued as part of the desLibris books collection
- ISBN
- 9781442676343 0802087639
- LCCN
- PQ4809.A45
- LCCN Item number
- Z57 2003eb
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- CaBNVSL
- Original cataloging agency
- CaOONL
- Physical Description | Extent
- 1 electronic text (viii, 239 p.)
- Published in
- Canada
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- CaOOCEL
- Rights
- Access restricted to authorized users and institutions
- System Control Number
- (CaBNVSL)thg00600959 (OCoLC)244768825 (CaOOCEL)418428
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- Mode of access: World Wide Web
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- CaOONL
Table of Contents
- Contents 8
- Acknowledgments 10
- INTRODUCTION 14
- Calvino and Post-war Italy 15
- Calvino and Genre 19
- 1 ITALY AT THE CROSSROADS, 1943–1963 23
- The Italian Resistance and the Shaping of the Post-war Italian Intellectual 24
- II Politecnico 1945–1947: Culture vs Politics 29
- Officina 1955–1959: The Poetical Potential of Politics 39
- II Menabò 1959–1967: Commitment at Sunset 47
- 2 ITALO CALVINO: FROM NEO-REALISM TO THE FANTASTIC 58
- Calvino and Neo-realism 58
- I giovani and the Limits of Neo-realism 65
- The Cloven Viscount and the Resources of the Fantastic 73
- 3 THE BARON IN THE TREES: THE UTOPIAN MOMENT IN CALVINO'S FANTASTIC TRILOGY 92
- Cosimo's Utopia 94
- A Finer Fantastic 106
- Engaging the Socio-cultural Moment 120
- 4 THE NON-EXISTENT KNIGHT: OBSTINACY WITHOUT ILLUSIONS 142
- Agilulfo and Ethical Subjectivity 144
- Pessimism of the Intellect, Optimism of the Will 159
- 5 THE WATCHER: THE INTELLECTUAL IN THE LABYRINTH 172
- The Language of Paralysis 175
- Hamlet and the Minotaur 182
- Exorcizing the Labyrinth's Lure 192
- CONCLUSION: LITERATURE AS AN ETHICAL PROJECT 202
- What Is Literature Good For? 203
- Calvino and the Parable of Contemporaneity 206
- Notes 208
- Bibliography 232
- Index 246
- A 246
- B 246
- C 246
- D 247
- E 247
- F 247
- G 247
- H 248
- I 248
- J 248
- K 248
- L 248
- M 248
- N 249
- O 249
- P 249
- R 249
- S 250
- T 250
- U 250
- V 250
- W 250
- Z 250
