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Painting with words, writing with pictures : word and image in the work of Italo Calvino / Franco Ricci.
De Gruyter University of Toronto Press eBook-Package Backlist 2000-2013 Available online
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- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Ricci, Franco, 1953- author.
- Series:
- Toronto Italian studies.
- Toronto Italian Studies
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Calvino, Italo--Criticism and interpretation.
- Calvino, Italo.
- Genre:
- Livres numeriques.
- Criticism, interpretation, etc.
- e-books.
- Electronic books.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (355 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Toronto, [Ontario] ; Buffalo, [New York] ; London, [England] : University of Toronto Press, 2001.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- 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.
- Contents:
- From Word to Image
- Overreaching Boundaries
- Of Fantasy Images and Visual Patterns
- Imagism: New Ways of Seeing
- Real Images and Fantasy Imaginings
- Personal Re-memberings
- From Image to Word
- A Verbal Order to Visual Chaos
- Cosmicomics
- 'L'origine degli Uccelli'
- Visually Potentializing Literature
- St George and St Jerome
- Variations on a Theme
- Vision and the Validity of Understanding
- Writing as Description
- Writing as Eskesis
- Verbal Order to Visual Chaos
- Mapping the Seeable and Sayable
- Mapping Internal Geography
- If on a winter's night a traveller ... following a map ... discovers a painter's studio
- Squaring the Text
- The World's Seamless Web
- Writing with Art
- Thinking of Art
- Stealing from Art
- Painted Stories and Novel Spaces
- Writing and Painting
- Valerio Adami
- Domenico Gnoli
- Giorgio De Chirico City
- Conclusion: A New Point of Departure.
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
- Description based on print version record.
- ISBN:
- 1-282-01429-3
- 9786612014291
- 1-4426-7823-2
- OCLC:
- 1002271112
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