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Towards the river's mouth = (Verso la foce) : a critical edition / by Gianni Celati ; edited, translated, and introduced by Patrick Barron.
Van Pelt Library DG975.P7 C4513 2019
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Celati, Gianni, 1937-2022, author.
- Series:
- Ecocritical theory and practice
- Standardized Title:
- Verso la foce. English
- Language:
- English
- Italian
- Subjects (All):
- Celati, Gianni, 1937-2022.
- Travel.
- Celati, Gianni, 1937-2022--Travel--Italy--Po River Valley.
- Celati, Gianni.
- Celati, Gianni, 1937-2022. Verso la foce.
- Celati, Gianni, 1937-2022--Criticism and interpretation.
- Criticism and interpretation.
- Po River Valley (Italy)--Description and travel.
- Po River Valley (Italy).
- Italy--Po River Valley.
- Genre:
- Criticism, interpretation, etc.
- Physical Description:
- xxv, 210 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- Lanham : Lexington Books, [2019]
- Summary:
- "Italian writer and filmmaker Gianni Celati's 1989 philosophical travelogue Towards the River's Mouth explores perception, memory, place and space as it recounts a series of journeys across the Po River Valley in northern Italy. This edition, translated into English for the first time, features a selection of ten essays by various scholars"-- Provided by publisher.
- Contents:
- Towards the river's mouth / Gianni Celati
- Gianni Celati's Towards the river's mouth: the experience of place between writing and photography / Marina Spunta
- Sight, language, time: to be surrounded by the world / Monica Seger
- Gianni Celati's Strada provinciale delle anime: a "silent" film about "nothing" / Rebecca West
- The posthuman imagination of Gianni Celati's cinema / Matteo Gilebbi
- Restoring the imagination of place: narrative reinhabitation and the Po Valley / Serenella Iovino
- Forms of impegno in Towards the river's mouth / Michele Ronchi Stefanati
- Witnessing the Po River: disorientation and estrangement in Primo Levi and Gianni Celati / Damiano Benvegnù
- A tale of two Giannis: writing as rememoration / Thomas Harrison
- Walking in the open enchanted by the overheard: two reflections on Towards the river's mouth / Massimo Rizzante
- Introduction to paesology / Franco Arminio.
- Notes:
- Translated from the Italian.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Other Format:
- Online version: Celati, Gianni, 1937- author. Towards the river's mouth =
- ISBN:
- 9781498566018
- 1498566014
- OCLC:
- 1065544291
- Publisher Number:
- 99980481813
- 40028823223
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