TY  - BOOK
AU  - Calvino,Italo
AU  - Creagh,Patrick
TI  - The uses of literature: essays 
SN  - 0151932050
AV  - PN37 .C34 1986
U1  - 800 22
PY  - 1986///]
CY  - San Diego
PB  - Harvest
KW  - Literature
N1  - 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
ER  -