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Calvino and the Age of Neorealism: Fables of Estrangement

Book by Lucia Re; Stanford University, 1990

Subjects:

Calvino, Italo--Technique, Realism In Literature, World War, 1939-1945--Literature And The War

Collections: Literature, Entire Library

...the end of the book Frontispiece: Calvinos partisan card This book is lovingly...Writing Degree Zero Today Italo Calvinos reputation as one of the great writers...pointed out that the protagonist of Calvinos last novel, Mr. Palomar 1983...
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Italo Calvino: Eros and Language

Book by Tommasina Gabriele; Fairleigh Dickinson University Press, 1994

Subjects:

Calvino, Italo--Criticism And Interpretation

Collections: Literature, Entire Library

...shortage of criticism on eros in Calvinos work. I am very grateful for his sensitive...sopra (Turin: Einaudi, 1980) and Calvinos untitled essay in the special edi...away by the mythicizing effect of Calvinos demise in 1985, for the level of...
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Great World Writers: Twentieth Century - Vol. 2

Book by Patrick M. O'Neil; Marshall Cavendish, 2004

Subjects:

Authors--20th Century--Biography--Dictionaries, Calvino, Italo--Criticism and interpretation, Camus, Albert--1913-1960--Criticism and interpretation, Carpentier, Alejo--1904---Criticism and interpretation, Cesaire, Aime--Criticism and interpretation, Coetzee, J. M.--1940---Criticism and interpretation, Dangarembga, Tsitsi--Criticism and interpretation, Literature, Modern--20th Century--Bio-Bibliography--Dictionaries, Lu, Xun--1881-1936--Criticism and interpretation

Collections: Literature, Entire Library

...commercialism, and technological progress. Calvinos writings span nearly four decades...town on the Italian Riviera, where Calvinos father ran an experimental floricultural center. Calvinos parents were botanists and agronomists...
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Ladies Errant: Wayward Women and Social Order in Early Modern Italy

Book by Deanna Shemek; Duke University Press, 1998

Subjects:

Italian Literature--History And Criticism, Social Structure In Literature, Women In Literature

Collections: Literature, Entire Library

...allying itself at the same time with a literary future when Spenser, Monteverdi, Cervantes, and eventually even Italo Calvino would integrate it into bold new artforms. 13 The Furioso s fusion of modes makes way for a modern sensibility no longer...
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Narrating Postmodern Time and Space

Book by Joseph Francese; State University of New York Press, 1997

Subjects:

Literature, Modern--20th Century--History And Criticism, Postmodernism (Literature)

Collections: Literature, Entire Library

...life will rebut the consensus among Calvinos English-language critics regarding...postmodern qualities of his writings. Calvinos popularity in the Anglophonic world...strong narratives, both Barths and Calvinos individual brands of metafiction claim...

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Calvino's Reality: Designer's Utopia

Journal article by Johanna Jacob; Utopian Studies, Vol. 9, 1998

Subjects:

Calvino, Italo--Criticism, interpretation, etc., Graphic arts--Technique, Utopias--Design and construction

Collections: Entire Library

Calvinos reality: designers utopia by Johanna Jacob...usually what the graphic designer is trying to achieve. Calvinos answer to arts current dilemma is to assign to literature...beyond reality and the fear of the marketplace. Ironically, Calvinos values can already be associated with existing concepts...
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A Challenging Nostalgia in Search of Reunion: Desire in Calvino's "The Distance from the Moon"

Journal article by Daniela De Pau; West Virginia University Philological Papers, 2002

Subjects:

Calvino, Italo--Criticism and interpretation, Italian literature--Criticism and interpretation, Positivism--Influence, Science and the humanities

Collections: Literature, Entire Library

...Nostalgia in Search of Reunion: Desire in Calvinos "The Distance from the Moon...of particular importance is Italo Calvinos literary and theoretical contribution...beginning. However, what distinguishes Calvinos writing style from that of the other...
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Italo Calvino

Journal article by Alan Tinkler; The Review of Contemporary Fiction, Vol. 22, 2002

Subjects:

Authors--Works, Authorship--Technique, Calvino, Italo--Works, Folklore--Authorship, Religion--Portrayals, depictions, etc., Sex--Portrayals, depictions, etc.

Collections: Religious Studies, Literature, Entire Library

...argues that the "critics first job, in Calvinos own words, is to discern the different...Palomar, attributes the delay to Calvinos search for the appropriate structure...purposes. The resulting variety of Calvinos creative works is astonishing, from...
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Italo Calvino: A Journey toward Postmodernism

Journal article by Joseph Francese; International Fiction Review, 2001

Subjects:

Books--Reviews, Italo Calvino: A Journey Toward Postmodernism (Book)--Reviews

Collections: Literature, Entire Library

...it furnishes a broad overview of Calvinos creative prose with an abundance of...ensuing chapters. Chapter 2 looks at Calvinos neorealist period, especially his...3, "Modernist Travels," deals with Calvinos prose from the 1950s through La giornata...
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Italo Calvino and Georges Perec: The Multiple and Contrasting Emotions of Cities and Puzzles

Journal article by Laura Chiesa; The Romanic Review, Vol. 97, 2006

Subjects:

Calvino, Italo--Criticism and interpretation, Calvino, Italo--Works, Emotions--Analysis, Perec, Georges--Criticism and interpretation, Perec, Georges--Works

Collections: Literature, Entire Library

...the disjunctions that pass between Calvinos Le citta invisibili and Perecs La...of the map are one of the foci of Calvinos poetics. In the period of the drafting...labyrinth, which begins to pervade Calvinos writing as early as the 1960s, to...

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Ingenuous and Not at All Austere - A Profile of Italo Calvino

Magazine article by Linda Simon; World and I, Vol. 16, January 2001

Collections: Entire Library

...a prestigious publishing house. Calvinos earliest work, his novel The Path...or such as our selves? In all of Calvinos work, the self is a tenuous and shifting...linear plot will never find one in Calvinos works. Any story, Calvino implied...
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Six Journeys into Architectural Reality

Magazine article by Marja-Riitta Norri, Hildi Hawkins; The Architectural Review, Vol. 199, April 1996

Subjects:

Architecture--Analysis

Collections: Entire Library

...visibility, multiplicity, consistency. In Calvinos hands, as one may expect, these qualities...draw architectural conclusions from Calvinos work, since his approach strongly...things so well. Exactitude refers, in Calvinos categories, to clear form, multiplicity...
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Carla Accardi: Musee D'Art Moderne De la Ville De Paris

Magazine article by Jean-Pierre Criqui; Artforum International, Vol. 40, April 2002

Subjects:

Accardi, Carla--Exhibitions, Painting, Modern--Exhibitions

Collections: Entire Library

...weight from the structure of stories and from language." If Calvinos enterprise was a "subtraction of weight," the project...failed to do it justice. In his meditation on lightness, Calvino takes Perseus as his hero. By cutting off the head of...
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Six Themes for the Next Millenium

Magazine article by Juhani Pallasmaa; The Architectural Review, Vol. 196, July 1994

Subjects:

Architecture--Analysis, Millennium--Forecasts

Collections: Entire Library

...for the criteria of authenticity and quality? Following Calvinos scheme, I wish to suggest six themes for the re-enchantment...architecture of empathy and humility. 6. SILENCE Following Calvinos scheme, I could leave my sixth theme as a mere title, particularly...
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The Fate of Stories

Magazine article by Bruce Jackson; The Antioch Review, Vol. 60, Winter 2002

Subjects:

Creative writing--Methods, Fiction--Evaluation, Storytelling--Evaluation

Collections: Literature, Entire Library

...to me. Now that Im an older person, people assume I know more than I often do. At the end of Invisible Cities, Italo Calvinos Kublai Khan asks the young Marco Polo, "When you return to the West, will you tell your people the same tales you tell...

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Italo Calvino's Autobiographical Notes Collected to Good Effect

Newspaper article; The Washington Times, June 15, 2003

Subjects:

Calvino, Italo

Collections: Religious Studies, Philosophy, History, Education, Literature, Psychology, Entire Library

Italo Calvinos autobiographical notes collected to good...writings are the best in the book, although Calvinos journal of his six-month tour of the United...The majority of "Hermit in Paris" recounts Calvinos political awakening and subsequent disillusionment...
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BOOK REVIEWS: The Birmingham Book Festival Supported by BIRMINGHAM POST; My Favourite Book

Newspaper article; The Birmingham Post (England), October 14, 2006

Subjects:

Festivals

Collections: Religious Studies, Philosophy, History, Education, Literature, Psychology, Entire Library

...responsible for the fact that I am a writer, it must be Italo Calvinos Invisible Cities. In this extraordinary work, Kublai Khan...drawn on a map so much as an empire of the imagination. Calvinos book is as astonishing today as it was when I read it first...
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From Siberia to Timbuktu

Newspaper article; The Daily Mail (London, England), April 8, 2005

Subjects:

Books--Book reviews

Collections: Religious Studies, Philosophy, History, Education, Literature, Psychology, Entire Library

...transcends geographical and historical particularities to become a startlingly life-affirming portrait of humanity itself. If Calvinos megalopolis is at all like this, the future is going to be anything but dull. Another old school adventurer crops up...
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Seamus Heaney Gathers His Best Essays on Fellow Poets, Their Art

Newspaper article; The Washington Times, June 9, 2002

Subjects:

Heaney, Seamus

Collections: Religious Studies, Philosophy, History, Education, Literature, Psychology, Entire Library

...speech accepting the Nobel Prize. Almost all the pieces deal with modern poets, the one exception being a short one on Italo Calvinos last novel, "Mr. Palomar," which has all the qualities of a poem except the lineation. There are also, in the first of...
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Culture: At the Cutting Edge; Arts Review

Newspaper article; The Birmingham Post (England), September 22, 2004

Collections: Religious Studies, Philosophy, History, Education, Literature, Psychology, Entire Library

...also underpinned with great balance, timing and sensitivity well-nuanced readings by Timothy West of excerpts from Italo Calvinos bravura evocation of Venice, Invisible Cities. And it was the kaleidoscopic, shimmering persona of La Serenissima which...

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Calvino, Italo

Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009

Collections: Religious Studies, Philosophy, History, Education, Literature, Psychology, Entire Library

CALVINO, ITALO it lo calve no, 1923 85, Italian novelist. Calvino was one of the most popular novelists of the 20th cent...and Natalia Levi Ginzburg. During the 1950s, however, Calvino turned to fantasy and allegory. His trilogy of historical...
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Magic Realism

Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009

Collections: Religious Studies, Philosophy, History, Education, Literature, Psychology, Entire Library

...Cortazar , and Mexicos Carlos Fuentes . Non-Latin American writers whose fiction often employs magic realism include Italo Calvino and Salman Rushdie . ____________________ Copyright 2009 Columbia University Press. Used with the permission of Columbia...
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Italian Literature

Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009

Collections: Religious Studies, Philosophy, History, Education, Literature, Psychology, Entire Library

...of note include Italo Svevo , Alberto Moravia , Giuseppe di Lampedusa , Elio Vittorini , Cesare Pavese , Italo Calvino , Pier Paolo Pasolini , Carlo Gadda , Leonardo Sciascia, and Natalia Ginzburg. Their work is variously marked by psychological...

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