Italo Calvino and the compass of literature:
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Main Author: Bolongaro, Eugenio (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Toronto, Ont. University of Toronto Press c2003
Series:Toronto Italian studies
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Item Description:Includes bibliographical references (p. [221]-233) and index
Calvino and Post-war Italy -- - Calvino and Genre -- - Italy at the Crossroads, 1943-1963 -- - The Italian Resistance and the Shaping of the Post-war Italian Intellectual -- - Il Politecnico 1945-1947: Culture vs Politics -- - Officina 1955-1959: The Poetical Potential of Politics -- - Il Menabo 1959-1967: Commitment at Sunset -- - Italo Calvino: from Neo-Realism to the Fantastic -- - Calvino and Neo-realism -- - I giovani and the Limits of Neo-realism -- - The Cloven Viscount and the Resources of the Fantastic -- - The Baron in the Trees: The Utopian Moment in Calvino's Fantastic Trilogy -- - Cosimo's Utopia -- - A Finer Fantastic -- - Engaging the Socio-cultural Moment -- - The Non-Existent Knight: Obstinacy Without Illusions -- - Agilulfo and Ethical Subjectivity -- - Pessimism of the Intellect, Optimism of the Will -- - The Watcher: The Intellectual in the Labyrinth -- - The Language of Paralysis -- - Hamlet and the Minotaur -- - Exorcizing the Labyrinth's Lure -- - Conclusion: Literature as an Ethical Project -- - What Is Literature Good For? -- - Calvino and the Parable of Contemporaneity
Physical Description:1 Online-Ressource (viii, 239 p.)
ISBN:0802087639
1442676345
9780802087638
9781442676343

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