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Retracing a Winter's Journey: Schubert's Winterreise

Book by Susan Youens; Cornell University Press, 1991

Collections: Entire Library

...Wilhelm Hensel on 8 December 1822 shows a slender...folded as if to ward...near-compulsive traveler, wears a...drinkers galore, night watchmen...treatment of a favorite...wanderers on quests of...for each night, on retiring...by 1827. If Maynard...Schubert was a homosexual...
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Life on a Mediaeval Barony: A Picture of a Typical Feudal Community in the Thirteenth Century

Book by William Stearns Davis; Harper & Brothers, 1923

Subjects:

Chivalry, Civilization, Medieval, Feudalism

Collections: History, Entire Library

...burn all night. This keeps...is lucky if he has a large bag...throwing on some clothes...angry if a traveler will not...parting for the night. The seneschal...meantime makes a careful round...and to sit on their haunches...Garden If Baron Conon...everywhere--in the travelers and pilgrims...triumph that night, and all...Augustus, while a young prince...great ax on his shoulder...this, but if deer nibble...
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Life on a Mediaeval Barony: A Picture of a Typical Feudal Community in the Thirteenth Century

Book by William Stearns Davis; Biblo and Tannen, 1990

Subjects:

Chivalry, Civilization, Medieval--13th Century, Feudalism

Collections: History, Entire Library

...burn all night. This keeps...is lucky if he has a large bag...throwing on some clothes...angry if a traveler will not...parting for the night. The seneschal...meantime makes a careful round...and to sit on their haunches...a deer. If that is not...in the travelers and pilgrims...triumph that night, and all...Augustus, while a young prince...great ax on his shoulder...this, but if deer nibble...
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Complexities of Motion: New Essays on A.R. Ammons's Long Poems

Book by Steven P. Schneider; Fairleigh Dickinson University Press, 1999

Subjects:

Ammons, A. R.--1926---Criticism And Interpretation

Collections: Literature, Entire Library

...accretion and development has been supplemented, if not entirely replaced, by a poetics of excretion. Excretion is part of...babies shit (G, 61) Or even wondering why travelers never report on their bodily func- tions and where in medieval...
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Journal of a Residence on a Georgian Plantation in 1838- 1839

Book by Frances Anne Kemble, John A. Scott; Jonathan Cape, 1961

Subjects:

Georgia--Social Life And Customs, Slavery--Georgia

Collections: History, Entire Library

...number of winters at Hampton...was never a resident...in 1794 on the Corner...marvels. 5 If Fanny brought...Residence on a Georgian...than enough. If, said Channing...shooting on December...observation as if it had. How then, asks a recent writer...

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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

...his influential work If on a winters night a traveler, he was also crafting...Nests to the experimental If on a winters night a traveler. Throughout his career...Invisible Cities, and If on a winters night a traveler. His work with Oulipo...
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Italo Calvino. Hermit in Paris: Autobiographical Writings

Journal article by Pedro Ponce; The Review of Contemporary Fiction, Vol. 23, 2003

Subjects:

Hermit in Paris: Autobiographical Writings (Book)--Reviews

Collections: Literature, Entire Library

...experiments like Invisible Cities and If on a winters night a traveler, Italo Calvino is revealed in...collection is not the title essay--a meditation on writing and place--but rather...when the author was visiting on a Ford Foundation scholarship...
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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

...This concept is best illustrated in Calvinos If On a Winters Night a Traveler, where the imbedded stories are so intra-linked...Brace Javanovich, Publishers, 1968. --. If On a Winters Night a Traveler. Trans. William Weaver. London: Harcourt Brace...
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Finnegans Wake and the Satanic Verses: Two Modern Myths of the Fall

Journal article by M. Keith Booker; Critique, Vol. 32, 1991

Subjects:

Fiction--20th Century--History And Criticism

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...discussing the composition of the Koran in If on a winters night a traveler , employs this same strategy: Once -- the...1974 . 139-48. Calvino, Italo. If on a winters night a traveler Trans. William Weaver. San Diego...
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Coleman Dowell

Journal article by Eugene Hayworth; The Review of Contemporary Fiction, Vol. 22, 2002

Subjects:

American literature--Criticism, interpretation, etc., Authors, American--Criticism, interpretation, etc., Dowell, Coleman--Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Collections: Literature, Entire Library

...People has been compared to Italo Calvinos If on a winters night a traveler, a later novel which also uses embedded stories...being an Island" (OBrien 87). As in Calvinos If on a winters night a traveler, the reader here has an expectation that the...

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Miles from Nowhere: On a Return Trip to the Wilderness of British Columbia, the Author Sees Changes in the People, the Landscape, and Himself

Magazine article by Edward Hoagland; American Scholar, Vol. 75, Summer 2006

Subjects:

Adventure travel--Personal narratives, Novelists--Personal narratives

Collections: Entire Library

...its easy to see why so many travelers on these trails have gone without...woods. Here I am, taking a Contac pill with its thousand...the city can be, because if youre lonely in the city...horrendously about them at night. Here its the opposite. My...
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"Our Saint, Our Umpire": An Appreciation of Mary McCarthy, Whose Literary and Political Writing Is Well Represented in a New Anthology

Magazine article by Thomas Mallon; The Atlantic Monthly, Vol. 290, November 2002

Subjects:

A Bolt from the Blue and Other Essays (Book)

Collections: Literature, Entire Library

...for novels of contrivance--ingenious but highly artificial productions such as Nabokovs Pale Fire, Calvinos If on a Winters Night a Traveler, and Sarrautes Between Life and Death. None of these could be called "a book of the body," but they appealed...
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Bolt from the Blue and Other Essays

Magazine article; The Atlantic Monthly, Vol. 290, November 2002

Subjects:

American fiction

Collections: Entire Library

...for novels of contrivance--ingenious but highly artificial productions such as Nabokovs Pale Fire, Calvinos If on a Winters Night a Traveler, and Sarrautes Between Life and Death. None of these could be called "a book of the body," but they appealed...
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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

...shapely, linear plot will never find one in Calvinos works. Any story, Calvino implied, could go anywhere. In If on a Winters Night a Traveler, he provided ten beginnings, each twisting and digressing but none resolving or actually ending. Calvino never...
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A Space in Time: Click for the Universe ... Your Home Computer, Thanks to the Windows That NASA Has Poked in Space, Is the Site of the Greatest Show on Earth. A Deskbound Cosmic Pilgrim Beckons Us to an Available Sublimity

Magazine article by Michael Benson; The Atlantic Monthly, Vol. 290, July 2002

Subjects:

Astronomy--Portrayals, Digital electronics, Image processing, Image processing--Digital techniques, Information services, Internet services--Usage, Online services--Usage, Solar system--Discovery and exploration, United States. Jet Propulsion Laboratory, United States. National Aeronautics and Space Administration--Research

Collections: Entire Library

...through space. Looking out the window again (here, now, a traveler on a winters night), I realize that the Moon is in exactly the same phase...of temporal triangulation. And what am I doing now, if not the same thing as then? Looking up, "just" in time...

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Education Extra

Newspaper article; The Register-Guard (Eugene, OR), April 9, 2007

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

...60 books last year. She counts "If on a winters night a traveler," by Italo Calvino, as her favorite...scholarship finalist Natalie Matthews, a South Eugene High School senior, has been selected as a finalist by the Coca-Cola Scholars...
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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

...a mixture of fantasy and fable which he would refine and perfect in "Invisible Cities," "Cosmicomics" and "If on a Winters Night a Traveler." The critical success of these works placed Calvino at the forefront of an international literary movement...
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Riesling on the Rebound

Newspaper article; Daily Herald (Arlington Heights, IL), October 3, 2007

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

...Riesling is a willing traveler with roots from...German Riesling, a category that brings...Pradikats will appear on the label: Kabinett...grapes succumb to winters caress. Frozen grapes...blue-veined cheese. If your personal chef has the night off, try Kabinett...
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Vastly Different Tales of Love

Newspaper article; The Washington Times, November 25, 2007

Subjects:

Nemirovsky, Irene

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

...bachelor and world traveler, now returned to...Colette, marries a mill owner; she...land and the farms on which they live...in the dunes and winters in the town. "The...minstrel, a red-eyed night heron." Tobys wife...epistemological tool. As if mechanical, a halyard...
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A Country Overlooked

Newspaper article by Victor Block; The Washington Times, June 15, 1997

Subjects:

Uruguay

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

...North America. Winters (June to September...small size provides a sightseeing plus...studied and placed on public exhibition...strong European, if somewhat eclectic...An unsuspecting traveler dropped blindfolded...that arrives at night that provided my...

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Calvino, Italo

Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2007

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

...acclaim. Other important works include Cosmicomics (1965, tr. 1968), Italian Folktales (1956, tr. 1980), and If on a Winters Night a Traveler (1979, tr. 1981). See his autobiographical essays in The Road to San Giovanni (tr. 1993), and other autobiographical...

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