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From:Italica (Vol. 97, Issue 2) Peer-ReviewedAbstract: Nelle opere letterarie di Italo Calvino si trovano elementi tematici, come i personaggi semi-umani della trilogia degli Antenati o delle Cosmicomiche, a cui e possibile attribuire una funzione strategica in...
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From:Akroterion (Vol. 57) Peer-ReviewedThe term 'magic realism', normally reserved for twentieth-century novels with a mixture of realistic and fantastic elements, has not, to my knowledge, been applied to the comedies of Aristophanes. In this article I...
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From:Twentieth-Century Literary Criticism (Vol. 183. )[(essay date winter-spring 1989) In the following essay, Block examines the ways in which Calvino's The Baron in the Trees succeeds as a utopian novel.] Though all works in the utopian (and dystopian) genre posit an...
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From: Iowa Review[(essay date 1984) In the following essay, White places Calvino's short fiction within the context of postmodern literature.] I'd like to talk about Italo Calvino (particularly his two science-fictive books of stories,...
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From:The Modern Language Review (Vol. 93, Issue 1) Peer-ReviewedThis study examines how Calvino controls his readers' response by deploying textual sequences that precondition the addressees' reaction by virtue of both their modality and their position. I have focused on three...
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From: Italian QuarterlyIl Sentiero dei nidi di ragno ... is basically a neo-realistic novel. The work deals specifically with the civil war, yet Calvino did not create it as a piece of polemic literature. He does not appear to glorify the...
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From:Annali d'Italianistica (Vol. 36) Peer-ReviewedLuca Cottini. I passaggi obbligati di Italo Calvino. Autobiografia, memoria, identita. Ravenna: Longo Editore, 2017. Pp. 136. Since its object only partially exists, Cottini's study presents itself as inherently...
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From:Twentieth-Century Literary Criticism (Vol. 183. )[(essay date 1990) In the following essay, Ricci offers an overview of the tales in I racconti, claiming that, taken thematically, these stories move along "a trajectory which leads to self-abnegation," and in this...
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From:Annali d'Italianistica (Vol. 23) Peer-ReviewedOne of the foremost concerns of Italo Calvino's work--both in his fictions and in his essays--was the quest to recuperate a unified view of knowledge, akin to the traditional cosmogony which preceded the (post)modern...
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From: Italica[(essay date 1986) In the following essay, Ricci views the stories in I racconti as Calvino's early narrative experiments.] The Racconti of Italo Calvino--winner of the Premio Bagutta in 1959--is a collection of the...
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From:Italica (Vol. 96, Issue 3) Peer-ReviewedEnrica Maria Ferrara. Il realismo teatrale nella narrativa del Novecento. Firenze: Firenze University Press, 2014. Enrica Maria Ferrara's 2014 text Il realismo teatrale nella narrativa del Novecento is a valuable work...
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From:Notes on Contemporary Literature (Vol. 41, Issue 4) Peer-ReviewedMore than its story elements, Italo Calvino's If on a Winter's Night a Traveller explicates two key postmodern concepts--death of the author, and Intertextuality. Written mostly in an accosting mode, the text, with its...
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From:Italica (Vol. 94, Issue 1) Peer-ReviewedAbstract: This article problematizes Calvino's broad characterization of the "Italian" fiaba, as well as his claim that the collection provides examples of original, regional folktales. As Walter Benjamin observes in...
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From:The Review of Contemporary Fiction (Vol. 22, Issue 1) Peer-ReviewedWhen Italo Calvino died in 1985 at the age of sixty-two, he was working on a series of six essays to be delivered at Harvard University under the auspices of the Charles Eliot Norton Lectures. Calvino completed only...
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From: Creative Interventions: The Role of Intellectuals in Contemporary Italy[(essay date 2009) In the following essay, Bolongaro appraises Calvino’s commitment as an intellectual to the “cognitive and ethical connection between the word and the world” and discusses three intellectual figures in...
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From: Italian Quarterly[(essay date 1989) In the essay below, Cannon uses the stories in Calvino's posthumous collection to support her ideas concerning his approach to, and aspirations for, writing and literature in general.] In a lecture...
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From:Extrapolation (Vol. 39, Issue 1) Peer-ReviewedModern science generally thinks it has the upper hand. George Sarton professes the common belief: "The history of science might be defined as the history of the discovery of objective truth, of the gradual conquest of...
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From: New Republic[(review date 1980) In the following favorable review, LeGuin maintains that "one of the innumerable delights of Italian Folktales is its mixture of the deeply familiar with the totally unexpected."] Prowling among...
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From:Italica (Vol. 80, Issue 2) Peer-ReviewedItalo Calvino has for a long time been recognized as one of the world's foremost postmodern authors. JoAnn Cannon illustrates this point by quoting an article from the New York Times Book Review where Calvino is listed...
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From: Robert Louis Stevenson, Writer of Boundaries[(essay date 2006) In the following essay, Lucas compares the depiction of piracy in Treasure Island to its representation in works by Italian authors Emilio Salgari and Italo Calvino. Lucas contrasts the humble-born...