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Italo Calvino and the compass of literature / Eugenio Bolongaro.
LIBRA PQ4809.A45 Z647 2003
Available from offsite location
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Bolongaro, Eugenio, 1959-
- Series:
- Toronto Italian studies
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Calvino, Italo--Criticism and interpretation.
- Calvino, Italo.
- Criticism and interpretation.
- Physical Description:
- viii, 239 pages ; 24 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- Toronto ; Buffalo : University of Toronto Press, [2003]
- Contents:
- Calvino and Post-war Italy 4
- Calvino and Genre 8
- 1 Italy at the Crossroads, 1943-1963 12
- The Italian Resistance and the Shaping of the Post-war Italian Intellectual 13
- Il Politecnico 1945-1947: Culture vs Politics 18
- Officina 1955-1959: The Poetical Potential of Politics 28
- Il Menabo 1959-1967: Commitment at Sunset 36
- 2 Italo Calvino: from Neo-Realism to the Fantastic 47
- Calvino and Neo-realism 47
- I giovani and the Limits of Neo-realism 54
- The Cloven Viscount and the Resources of the Fantastic 62
- 3 The Baron in the Trees: The Utopian Moment in Calvino's Fantastic Trilogy 81
- Cosimo's Utopia 83
- A Finer Fantastic 95
- Engaging the Socio-cultural Moment 109
- 4 The Non-Existent Knight: Obstinacy Without Illusions 131
- Agilulfo and Ethical Subjectivity 133
- Pessimism of the Intellect, Optimism of the Will 148
- 5 The Watcher: The Intellectual in the Labyrinth 161
- The Language of Paralysis 164
- Hamlet and the Minotaur 171
- Exorcizing the Labyrinth's Lure 181
- Conclusion: Literature as an Ethical Project 191
- What Is Literature Good For? 192
- Calvino and the Parable of Contemporaneity 195.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages [221]-233) and index.
- ISBN:
- 0802087639 :
- OCLC:
- 51629764
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