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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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