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The Author in Criticism - Elio Attilio Baldi

The Author in Criticism

Italo Calvino’s Authorial Image in Italy, the United States, and the United Kingdom
Buch | Softcover
316 Seiten
2022
Fairleigh Dickinson University Press (Verlag)
978-1-68393-193-5 (ISBN)
CHF 72,90 inkl. MwSt
The Author in Criticism offers a comparative analysis of the reception and circulation of Italo Calvino’s works in the United States of America, the United Kingdom and Italy, proposing new views that arise from the analysis of the different phases and faces that characterize Calvino’s transnational authorial profile.
The Author in Criticism: Italo Calvino’s Authorial Image in Italy, the United States, and the United Kingdom explores the cultural and historic patterns and differences in the critical readings of Italian author Italo Calvino’s works in the United States of America, the United Kingdom, and Italy. It considers the external factors that contribute to create recognizable patterns in the readings of Calvino’s texts in different contexts. This volume therefore covers, most notably, matters of genre (science fiction, postmodernism), cultural perceptions and conventions, the (re)current image of the author in different media, academic schools, -curricula and -canons, biographical information (such as gender and background), and translation and the language in which the author speaks (or fails to speak) to us. It traces the influence of these aspects in the academic discourse on Calvino. The Author in Criticism also analyzes Calvino’s various professional roles as writer, editor, essayist, journalist, private correspondent, and public, cosmopolitan intellectual, reappraising their often little acknowledged importance for academic criticism. An important underlying idea is that the preconceived image that every critic has of Calvino before even opening one of his books is often solidified and repeated even in the most refined and complex critical analyses. This volume purposefully foregrounds the textual and non-textual parts that are usually considered peripheral to the works of an author, such as book covers, blurbs, reviews, talks, interviews, etc. In this way, this book provides insight into the reception of Calvino’s works in different countries. Moreover, it forms a broader reflection of and on important constants in the workings of literary criticism, and on the way academic discourses have developed in various cultural contexts over the last decades.

Elio Attilio Baldi is lecturer at the Department of Italian Studies at the University of Amsterdam.

Acknowledgments

Introduction

Chapter One: The Dead Author and the Paratextual Calvino

Chapter Two: Calvino Within the Canon and Counter-Canon

Chapter Three: Calvino from High to Low: The Case of Science Fiction

Chapter Four: Calvino Crossing Boundaries: Trans[n/l]ational, Gendered and Posthuman Calvini

Conclusion: Moving Beyond Calvino With Calvino: Will the Real Calvino Please Stand Up?

Bibliography

Appendix: Further Reading

Index

About the Author

Erscheinungsdatum
Verlagsort Cranbury
Sprache englisch
Maße 153 x 230 mm
Gewicht 463 g
Themenwelt Literatur Fantasy / Science Fiction Science Fiction
Geisteswissenschaften Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft Anglistik / Amerikanistik
Geisteswissenschaften Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft Literaturwissenschaft
ISBN-10 1-68393-193-9 / 1683931939
ISBN-13 978-1-68393-193-5 / 9781683931935
Zustand Neuware
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