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Record Nr.

UNINA9910811721403321

Autore

Celati Gianni <1937-2022, >

Titolo

Towards the river's mouth : a critical edition / / by Gianni Celati ; edited, translated, and introduced by Patrick Barron

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Lanham : , : Lexington Books, , [2019]

©2019

ISBN

1-4985-6602-2

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (238 pages)

Collana

Ecocritical theory and practice

Disciplina

914.5/204928

Soggetti

Po River Valley (Italy) Description and travel

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Towards the river's mouth / Gianni Celati -- Gianni Celati's Towards the river's mouth: the experience of place between writing and photography / Marina Spunta -- Sight, language, time: to be surrounded by the world / Monica Seger -- Gianni Celati's Strada provinciale delle anime: a "silent" film about "nothing" / Rebecca West -- The posthuman imagination of Gianni Celati's cinema / Matteo Gilebbi -- Restoring the imagination of place: narrative reinhabitation and the Po Valley / Serenella Iovino -- Forms of impegno in Towards the river's mouth / Michele Ronchi Stefanati -- Witnessing the Po River: disorientation and estrangement in Primo Levi and Gianni Celati / Damiano Benvegnù -- A tale of two Giannis: writing as rememoration / Thomas Harrison -- Walking in the open enchanted by the overheard: two reflections on Towards the river's mouth / Massimo Rizzante -- Introduction to paesology / Franco Arminio.

Sommario/riassunto

"Italian writer and filmmaker Gianni Celati's 1989 philosophical travelogue Towards the River's Mouth explores perception, memory, place and space as it recounts a series of journeys across the Po River Valley in northern Italy. This edition, translated into English for the first time, features a selection of ten essays by various scholars"--