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Painting with words, writing with pictures : word and image in the work of Italo Calvino / Franco Ricci.

Van Pelt Library PQ4809.A45 Z88 2001
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Format:
Book
Author/Creator:
Ricci, Franco, 1953-
Series:
Toronto Italian studies
Language:
English
Subjects (All):
Calvino, Italo--Criticism and interpretation.
Calvino, Italo.
Criticism and interpretation.
Physical Description:
x, 344 pages ; 24 cm.
Place of Publication:
Toronto ; Buffalo : University of Toronto Press, [2001]
Contents:
1 From Word to Image 15
Overreaching Boundaries 16
Of Fantasy Images and Visual Patterns 20
Imagism: New Ways of Seeing 34
Real Images and Fantasy Imaginings 43
Personal Re-memberings 58
2 From Image to Word 69
A Verbal Order to Visual Chaos 70
Cosmicomics 77
'L'origine degli Uccelli' 86
Visually Potentializing Literature 106
St George and St Jerome 113
3 Variations on a Theme 123
Vision and the Validity of Understanding 124
Writing as Description 131
Writing as Eskesis 145
4 Verbal Order to Visual Chaos 157
Mapping the Seeable and Sayable 159
Mapping Internal Geography 167
If on a winter's night a traveller ... following a map ... discovers a painter's studio 174
Squaring the Text 185
5 The World's Seamless Web 191
Writing with Art 192
Thinking of Art 200
Stealing from Art 212
6 Painted Stories and Novel Spaces 220
Writing and Painting 222
Valerio Adami 229
Domenico Gnoli 248
Giorgio De Chirico City 261
Conclusion: A New Point of Departure 276.
Notes:
Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
ISBN:
0802035078 :
OCLC:
46625924

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