The uses of literature : essays / Italo Calvino ; translated by Patrick Creagh.
Material type: TextLanguage: English, Italian Publisher: San Diego : Harvest, [1986]Copyright date: ©1986Description: vi, 341 pages ; 22 cmContent type:- text
- unmediated
- volume
- 0151932050
- 9780151932054
- 0156932504
- 9780156932509
- Pietra sopra. English
- 800 22
- PN37 .C34 1986
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Book | City Campus City Campus Main Collection | 800 CAL (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | 1 | Available | A405194B |
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799.1 IRE How to catch a fish / | 799.17570993 SPA Trout in New Zealand : where to go and how to catch them / | 799.2993 HUN Hunting : a New Zealand history / | 800 CAL The uses of literature : essays / | 801 COO Discourse and literature : the interplay of form and mind / | 801 LAU The sociology of literature / | 801 SAR "What is literature?" and other essays / |
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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