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The uses of literature : essays / Italo Calvino ; translated by Patrick Creagh.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextLanguage: English, Italian Publisher: San Diego : Harvest, [1986]Copyright date: ©1986Description: vi, 341 pages ; 22 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 0151932050
  • 9780151932054
  • 0156932504
  • 9780156932509
Uniform titles:
  • Pietra sopra. English
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 800 22
LOC classification:
  • PN37 .C34 1986
Contents:
1. Cybernetics and ghosts -- Two interviews on science and literature -- Philosophy and literature -- Literature as projection of desire -- Definitions of territories: comedy -- Definitions of territories: eroticism -- Definitions of territories: fantasy -- Cinema and the novel: problems of narrative, whom do we write for?, or the hypothetical bookshelf -- Right and wrong political uses of literature -- Levels of reality in literature -- 2. Why read the classics? -- The odysseys within the Odyssey -- Ovid and universal contiguity -- The structure of Orlando Furioso -- Candide: an essay in velocity -- The city as protagonist in Balzac -- The novel as spectacle -- Manzoni's The betrothed: the novel of ratios of power -- On Fourier, I: brief introduction to the society of love -- On Fourier, II: the controller of desires -- On Fourier, III: Envoi: A Utopia of fine dust guide to The charterhouse of Parma for the use of new readers -- Stendhal's knowledge of the "Milky Way" -- Montale's rock -- The pen in the first person -- In memory of Roland Barthes -- The bestiary of Marianne Moore -- Man, the sky, and the elephant -- Cyrano on the moon.
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Translation of: Una pietra sopra.

Includes bibliographical references.

1. Cybernetics and ghosts -- Two interviews on science and literature -- Philosophy and literature -- Literature as projection of desire -- Definitions of territories: comedy -- Definitions of territories: eroticism -- Definitions of territories: fantasy -- Cinema and the novel: problems of narrative, whom do we write for?, or the hypothetical bookshelf -- Right and wrong political uses of literature -- Levels of reality in literature -- 2. Why read the classics? -- The odysseys within the Odyssey -- Ovid and universal contiguity -- The structure of Orlando Furioso -- Candide: an essay in velocity -- The city as protagonist in Balzac -- The novel as spectacle -- Manzoni's The betrothed: the novel of ratios of power -- On Fourier, I: brief introduction to the society of love -- On Fourier, II: the controller of desires -- On Fourier, III: Envoi: A Utopia of fine dust guide to The charterhouse of Parma for the use of new readers -- Stendhal's knowledge of the "Milky Way" -- Montale's rock -- The pen in the first person -- In memory of Roland Barthes -- The bestiary of Marianne Moore -- Man, the sky, and the elephant -- Cyrano on the moon.

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