Italo Calvino and the compass of literature / / Eugenio Bolongaro

• Autore: Bolongaro Eugenio <1959->
• Pubblicazione: Toronto, [Ontario] ; ; Buffalo, [New York] ; ; London, [England] : , : University of Toronto Press, , 2003; ©2003
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (250 pages)
• Disciplina: 853.914
• Soggetto topico: LITERARY CRITICISM - European - Italian
• Soggetto genere / forma: Criticism, interpretation, etc.; Electronic books.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Calvino and Post-war Italy -- Calvino and Genre -- Italy at the Crossroads, 1943-1963 -- The Italian Resistance and the Shaping of the Post-war Italian Intellectual -- Il Politecnico 1945-1947: Culture vs Politics -- Officina 1955-1959: The Poetical Potential of Politics -- Il Menabo 1959-1967: Commitment at Sunset -- Italo Calvino: from Neo-Realism to the Fantastic -- Calvino and Neo-realism -- I giovani and the Limits of Neo-realism -- The Cloven Viscount and the Resources of the Fantastic -- The Baron in the Trees: The Utopian Moment in Calvino's Fantastic Trilogy -- Cosimo's Utopia -- A Finer Fantastic -- Engaging the Socio-cultural Moment -- The Non-Existent Knight: Obstinacy Without Illusions -- Agilulfo and Ethical Subjectivity -- Pessimism of the Intellect, Optimism of the Will -- The Watcher: The Intellectual in the Labyrinth -- The Language of Paralysis -- Hamlet and the Minotaur -- Exorcizing the Labyrinth's Lure -- Conclusion: Literature as an Ethical Project -- What Is Literature Good For? -- Calvino and the Parable of Contemporaneity.
• Sommario/riassunto: Looking at five of Italo Calvino's often neglected early novels: The Young People of Po, The Cloven Viscount, The Baron in the Trees, The Non-Existent Knight, and The Watcher, Eugenio Bolongaro argues that these works, written between 1948 and 1963, contain a sustained meditation on the role of the intellectual and on the irreducible ethical and political dimension of literature. This meditation provides an insight into a crucial moment in Calvino's development as a writer, and allows Bolongaro to lay the groundwork for a more 'political' reading of Calvino's later work. Italo Calvino and the Compass of Literature firmly situates Calvino within his historical context the cultural revival of post-World War II Italy by relating these early novels to Calvino's political and critical writings which played an important role in the cultural debates of the time. This approach provides a key to understanding Calvino's work in a new light, ably demonstrating that Calvino's full literary significance cannot be understood in isolation from the politics and cultural movements of the period. One of the few book-length English-language works on Calvino's early writings, Italo Calvino and the Compass of Literatur will prove to be an indispensable tool to Italianists and literary studies scholars.
• Titolo autorizzato: Italo Calvino and the compass of literature
• ISBN: 1-4426-7634-5
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910822513403321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II