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Italo Calvino's Animals

Author : Serenella Iovino
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 100907699X
Total Pages : 136 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (9 download)

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Download or read book Italo Calvino's Animals written by Serenella Iovino and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2021-09-23 with total page 136 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The words 'Anthropocene animals' conjure pictures of dead albatrosses' bodies filled with plastic fragments, polar bears adrift on melting ice sheets, solitary elephants in the savannah. Suspended between the impersonal nature of the Great Extinction and the singularity of exotic individuals, these creatures appear remote, disconnected from us. But animals in the Anthropocene are not simply 'out there.' Threatening and threatened, they populate cities and countryside, often trapped in industrial farms, zoos, labs. Among them, there are humans, too. Italo Calvino's Animals explores Anthropocene animals through the visionary eyes of a classic modern author. In Calvino's stories, ants, cats, chickens, rabbits, gorillas, and other critters emerge as complex subjects and inhabitants of a world under siege. Beside them, another figure appears in the mirror: that of an anthropos without a capital A, epitome of subaltern humans with their challenges and inequalities, a companion species on the difficult path of co-evolution.

Italo Calvino

Author : Martin McLaughlin
Publisher : Edinburgh University Press
ISBN 13 : 1474470904
Total Pages : 209 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (744 download)

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Download or read book Italo Calvino written by Martin McLaughlin and published by Edinburgh University Press. This book was released on 2019-08-06 with total page 209 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This first study in English of the complete writings of Italo Calvino (1923-85) offers new interpretations of Calvino's main works, taking into account some important unpublished material, and analyses Calvino's intertextual links with major writers of world literature (Conrad, Stevenson, Hemingway and Borges). Postmodern elements in his texts are assessed, and a chapter on Calvino's critical essays shed important light on his creative process.

Cosmicomics

Author : Italo Calvino
Publisher : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
ISBN 13 : 9780156226004
Total Pages : 172 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (26 download)

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Book Synopsis Cosmicomics by : Italo Calvino

Download or read book Cosmicomics written by Italo Calvino and published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. This book was released on 1968 with total page 172 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Enchanting stories about the evolution of the universe, with characters that are fashioned from mathematical formulae and cellular structures. “Naturally, we were all there, - old Qfwfq said, - where else could we have been? Nobody knew then that there could be space. Or time either: what use did we have for time, packed in there like sardines?” Translated by William Weaver. A Helen and Kurt Wolff Book

Last Comes the Raven

Author : Italo Calvino
Publisher : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
ISBN 13 : 0544146700
Total Pages : 321 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (441 download)

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Book Synopsis Last Comes the Raven by : Italo Calvino

Download or read book Last Comes the Raven written by Italo Calvino and published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. This book was released on 2021 with total page 321 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “Calvino . . . managed effortlessly what no author in English could quite claim: his novels and stories and fables were both classically modernist and giddily postmodern, embracing both experiment and tradition, at once conceptual and humane, intimate and mythic.” — Jonathan Lethem, New York Times Book Review Blending reality and illusion with elegance and precision, the stories in this collection take place in a World War II–era and postwar Italy tinged with the visionary and fablelike qualities. A trio of gluttonous burglars invades a pastry shop; two children trespass upon a forbidden garden; a wealthy family invites a rustic goatherd to lunch, only to mock him. In the title story, a compact masterpiece of shifting perspectives, a panicked soldier tries to keep his wits—and his life—when he faces off against a young partisan with a loaded rifle and miraculous aim. Select stories from Last Comes the Raven have been published in translation, but the collection as a whole has never appeared in English. This volume, including several stories newly translated by Ann Goldstein, is an important addition to Calvino's legacy.

The Distance of the Moon

Author : Italo Calvino
Publisher : Penguin UK
ISBN 13 : 0241339111
Total Pages : 64 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (413 download)

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Download or read book The Distance of the Moon written by Italo Calvino and published by Penguin UK. This book was released on 2018-05-31 with total page 64 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'Time is a catastrophe, perpetual and irreversible.' Science and fiction interweave delightfully in these playful Cosmicomic short stories. Penguin Modern: fifty new books celebrating the pioneering spirit of the iconic Penguin Modern Classics series, with each one offering a concentrated hit of its contemporary, international flavour. Here are authors ranging from Kathy Acker to James Baldwin, Truman Capote to Stanislaw Lem and George Orwell to Shirley Jackson; essays radical and inspiring; poems moving and disturbing; stories surreal and fabulous; taking us from the deep South to modern Japan, New York's underground scene to the farthest reaches of outer space.

Animals and Race

Author : Jonathan W. Thurston-Torres
Publisher : MSU Press
ISBN 13 : 1628954833
Total Pages : 430 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (289 download)

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Download or read book Animals and Race written by Jonathan W. Thurston-Torres and published by MSU Press. This book was released on 2023-02-01 with total page 430 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The intersection of race and species has a long and problematic history. Western thinking specifically has demonstrated a societal need to try to conceive of race as a purely biological fact rather than a social construct. This book is an academic-activist challenge to that instinct, prioritizing anti-racism in its observation of the animal–race intersection. Too often, as Bénédicte Boisseron has indicated, this intersection typically appears in the form of animal activists instrumentalizing racial discrimination as a vehicle to approach animal rights. But why does this intersection exist, and, perhaps more importantly, how can we challenge it moving forward? This volume examines those two critical questions, taking an interdisciplinary approach in moving across subjects including art history, film studies, American history, and digital media analysis. Our interpretation of animals has, for centuries, been fundamental in the development of Western race thinking. This collection of essays looks at how this perspective contributes to the construction of racial discrimination, prioritizing ways to read the animal in our culture as a means for working to dismantle this conception.

Under the Jaguar Sun

Author : Italo Calvino
Publisher : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
ISBN 13 : 9780156927949
Total Pages : 100 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (279 download)

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Download or read book Under the Jaguar Sun written by Italo Calvino and published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. This book was released on 1988 with total page 100 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: One of Italy's greatest and most popular writers offers three witty, fantastical stories, each dominated by one of three senses--taste, hearing, or smell.

Exchanges and Parallels between Italy and East Asia

Author : Gaoheng Zhang
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1527544621
Total Pages : 390 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (275 download)

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Download or read book Exchanges and Parallels between Italy and East Asia written by Gaoheng Zhang and published by Cambridge Scholars Publishing. This book was released on 2019-12-18 with total page 390 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This collection of essays is the first English-language study to present the latest research on Italy’s cultural relationships with China and Japan across the centuries. It explores topics ranging from travel writing to creative arts, from translation to religious accommodation, and from Cold War politics to Chinese American cuisine. The volume draws on the expertise of an interdisciplinary group of scholars trained and working in Europe, East Asia, and North America who re-assess research foci and frames, showcase transcultural and theoretically-informed research, and help to strengthen this field of study.

Gogol's Wife & Other Stories

Author : Tommaso Landolfi
Publisher : New Directions Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9780811200806
Total Pages : 196 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (8 download)

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Download or read book Gogol's Wife & Other Stories written by Tommaso Landolfi and published by New Directions Publishing. This book was released on 1963 with total page 196 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Much admired in Europe, Landolfi has been called "the Italian Kafka"; he is often linked with the Surrealists, and in the intellectual quality of his fantasy there are certain affinities with Borges; but beyond these superficial comparisons, his is a truly unique--and fascinating--art. It is based in a prodigious imagination, a very curious sense of humor and a rare command of irony.

Marcovaldo

Author : Italo Calvino
Publisher : HMH
ISBN 13 : 0544133226
Total Pages : 131 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (441 download)

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Download or read book Marcovaldo written by Italo Calvino and published by HMH. This book was released on 2012-10-26 with total page 131 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A charming portrait of one man’s dreams and schemes, by “the greatest Italian writer of the twentieth century” (The Guardian). In this enchanting book of linked stories, Italo Calvino charts the disastrous schemes of an Italian peasant, an unskilled worker in a drab northern industrial city in the 1950s and ’60s, struggling to reconcile his old country habits with his current urban life. Marcovaldo has a practiced eye for spotting natural beauty and an unquenchable longing for the unspoiled rural world of his imagination. Much to the continuing puzzlement of his wife, his children, his boss, and his neighbors, he chases his dreams and gives rein to his fantasies, whether it’s sleeping in the great outdoors on a park bench, following a stray cat, or trying to catch wasps. Unfortunately, the results are never quite what he anticipates. Spanning from the 1950s to the 1960s, the twenty stories in Marcovaldo are alternately comic and melancholy, farce and fantasy. Throughout, Calvino’s unassuming masterpiece “conveys the sensuous, tangible qualities of life” (The New York Times).

Cat Stories

Author : Diana Secker Tesdell
Publisher : Everyman's Library
ISBN 13 : 9781841596105
Total Pages : 400 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (961 download)

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Download or read book Cat Stories written by Diana Secker Tesdell and published by Everyman's Library. This book was released on 2011-09 with total page 400 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A collection of stories inspired by cats and their relationships with humans.

Italo Calvino's Architecture of Lightness

Author : Letizia Modena
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1136730605
Total Pages : 280 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (367 download)

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Download or read book Italo Calvino's Architecture of Lightness written by Letizia Modena and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2011-05-09 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This study recovers Italo Calvino's central place in a lost history of interdisciplinary thought, politics, and literary philosophy in the 1960s. Drawing on his letters, essays, critical reviews, and fiction, as well as a wide range of works--primarily urban planning and design theory and history--circulating among his primary interlocutors, this book takes as its point of departure a sweeping reinterpretation of Invisible Cities. Passages from Calvino's most famous novel routinely appear as aphorisms in calendars, posters, and the popular literature of inspiration and self-help, reducing the novel to vague abstractions and totalizing wisdom about thinking outside the box. The shadow of postmodern studies has had a similarly diminishing effect on this text, rendering up an accomplished but ultimately apolitical novelistic experimentation in endless deconstructive deferrals, the shiny surfaces of play, and the ultimately rigged game of self-referentiality. In contrast, this study draws on an archive of untranslated Italian- and French-language materials on urban planning, architecture, and utopian architecture to argue that Calvino's novel in fact introduces readers to the material history of urban renewal in Italy, France, and the U.S. in the 1960s, as well as the multidisciplinary core of cultural life in that decade: the complex and continuous interplay among novelists and architects, scientists and artists, literary historians and visual studies scholars. His last love poem for the dying city was in fact profoundly engaged, deeply committed to the ethical dimensions of both architecture and lived experience in the spaces of modernity as well as the resistant practices of reading and utopian imagining that his urban studies in turn inspired.

Thinking Italian Animals

Author : D. Amberson
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 1137454776
Total Pages : 263 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (374 download)

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Download or read book Thinking Italian Animals written by D. Amberson and published by Springer. This book was released on 2014-09-18 with total page 263 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This bracing volume collects work on Italian writers and filmmakers that engage with nonhuman animal subjectivity. These contributions address 3 major strands of philosophical thought: perceived borders between man and animals, historical and fictional crises, and human entanglement with the nonhuman and material world.

Italian Literature in the Nuclear Age

Author : Maria Anna Mariani
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0192695363
Total Pages : 229 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (926 download)

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Download or read book Italian Literature in the Nuclear Age written by Maria Anna Mariani and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2022-09-29 with total page 229 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Italian Literature in the Nuclear Age: A Poetics of the Bystander explores the overlooked position of the bystander in the Nuclear Age by focusing on the Italian situation as a paradigmatic case. Host to hundreds of American atomic weapons while lacking a nuclear arsenal of its own, Italy's status was an ambiguous one: that of an unwilling—and in many ways passive—accomplice. Inspired by Seamus Heaney's dictum that "there is no such thing as innocent by-standing," the book frames Italy's fraught mix of implication and powerlessness not only as a geopolitical question, but as a way to rethink the role of the sidelined intellectual in the face of mass extinction. Italian Literature in the Nuclear Age includes discrete chapters on the major Italian intellectuals of the time: Italo Calvino, Alberto Moravia, Elsa Morante, Pier Paolo Pasolini, and Leonardo Sciascia. Conscious of their own political marginalization, these authors address the atomic question through a wide range of experimental forms, approaching the nearly unthinkable theme in allusive and oblique ways. Often dismissed as disengaged, inconsistent, or merely playful, these works demand instead a political reading capable of recognizing their confrontation with the paradoxes of the nuclear age.

Understanding Italo Calvino

Author : Beno Weiss
Publisher : Univ of South Carolina Press
ISBN 13 : 9780872498587
Total Pages : 260 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (985 download)

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Download or read book Understanding Italo Calvino written by Beno Weiss and published by Univ of South Carolina Press. This book was released on 1993 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Highlights Calvino's fascination with folk tales, knights, social & political allegories, & science fiction.

The Mind of Italo Calvino

Author : Dani Cavallaro
Publisher : McFarland
ISBN 13 : 0786456566
Total Pages : 211 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (864 download)

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Download or read book The Mind of Italo Calvino written by Dani Cavallaro and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2010-03-10 with total page 211 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: At the time of his death, Italo Calvino was internationally regarded as one of Italy's greatest twentieth century writers. His approach to literature was remarkably adventurous, and he produced a thought-provoking oeuvre. It invited readers to engage themselves with radical thoughts and philosophies, an approach lamentably scarce in contemporary global culture. This book examines Calvino's works of fiction in the context of the philosophical ideas he advanced in his theoretical and critical works. His was an extraordinarily versatile mind, keen on experimenting with a dazzling variety of both fiction and nonfiction forms.

Making Sense of ‘Food’ Animals

Author : Paula Arcari
Publisher : Springer Nature
ISBN 13 : 9811395853
Total Pages : 356 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (113 download)

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Download or read book Making Sense of ‘Food’ Animals written by Paula Arcari and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2019-09-04 with total page 356 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book addresses the persistence of meat consumption and the use of animals as food in spite of significant challenges to their environmental and ethical legitimacy. Drawing on Foucault’s regime of power/knowledge/pleasure, and theorizations of the gaze, it identifies what contributes to the persistent edibility of ‘food’ animals even, and particularly, as this edibility is increasingly critiqued. Beginning with the question of how animals, and their bodies, are variously mapped by humans according to their use value, it gradually unpacks the roots of our domination of ‘food’ animals – a domination distinguished by the literal embodiment of the ‘other’. The logics of this embodied domination are approached in three inter-related parts that explore, respectively, how knowledge, sensory and emotional associations, and visibility work together to render animal’s bodies as edible flesh. The book concludes by exploring how to more effectively challenge the ‘entitled gaze’ that maintains ‘food’ animals as persistently edible.