Italo Calvino and the Compass of Literature /
Bolongaro, Eugenio
Italo Calvino and the Compass of Literature / Eugenio Bolongaro. - 1 online resource (240 p.) - Toronto Italian Studies .
restricted access http://purl.org/coar/access_right/c_16ec
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.
Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
In English.
9780802087638 9781442676343
10.3138/9781442676343 doi
LITERARY CRITICISM / European / Italian.
PQ4809.A45 / Z57 2003eb
853/.914
Italo Calvino and the Compass of Literature / Eugenio Bolongaro. - 1 online resource (240 p.) - Toronto Italian Studies .
restricted access http://purl.org/coar/access_right/c_16ec
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.
Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
In English.
9780802087638 9781442676343
10.3138/9781442676343 doi
LITERARY CRITICISM / European / Italian.
PQ4809.A45 / Z57 2003eb
853/.914