Understanding Italo Calvino / by Beno Weiss
- Author
- Weiss, Beno, 1933-
- Published
- Columbia, S.C. : University of South Carolina Press, [1993]
- Copyright Date
- ©1993
- Physical Description
- 1 online resource (xvi, 233 pages).
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- Series
- Language Note
- English.
- Contents
- Ch. 1. Introduction: Calvino's Life and Circumstances -- Ch. 2. A Neorealistic Path to Literary Exordium: The Path to the Nest of Spiders -- Ch. 3. Fantastic and Realistic Webs of Prose -- Ch. 4. Our Ancestors: A Viscount, a Baron, and a Knight -- Ch. 5. The Speculating Intellectual at the Crossroads: Four Novellas -- Ch. 6. Calvino's Co[s]mic Mosaic -- Ch. 7. An Intellectually Playful Artifice: t zero -- Ch. 8. The Combinatorial Play of Narrative Possibilities: The Castle of Crossed Destinies; Invisible Cities -- Ch. 9. Calvino's Ultimate Hypernovel: If on a winter's night. . . -- Ch. 10. Posthumously: Under the Jaguar Sun; La Strada di San Giovanni -- Ch. 11. Conclusion: The Unredeeming Author: Mr. Palomar.
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- Genre(s)
- ISBN
- 0585351201 (electronic bk.)
9780585351209 (electronic bk.)
0872498581
9780872498587 - Bibliography Note
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 217-226) and index.
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