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Journal Article
Comparative Literature (2012) 64 (1): 93–109.
Published: 01 March 2012
... . This essay looks at the theoretical writing of Italo Calvino over the six-year period from 1967 to 1973 —the years between his translation of Raymond Queneau's novel Les Fleurs bleues and his full election to the Oulipo — arguing that during this time Calvino's own poetics underwent a significant change...
Journal Article
Comparative Literature (2006) 58 (1): 44–58.
Published: 01 January 2006
...ROBERT RUSHING University of Oregon 2006 Belpoliti, Marco. L'occhio di Calvino . Torino: Einaudi, 1996 . Calvino, Italo. Romanzi e racconti . Milano: Arnoldo Mondadori, 1991 -94. ____. Saggi . Milano: Arnoldo Mondadori, 1995 . de Lauretis, Teresa. Alice Doesn't: Feminism...
Journal Article
Comparative Literature (2009) 61 (3): 209–219.
Published: 01 June 2009
... Calvino, who was born in Cuba in 1923 when his Italian
botanist parents happened to be on that island on a scientifi c mission. Finding
himself part of that intricate accidental tradition of America’s historia naturalis,
Calvino, also an Argentine by marriage and thoroughly informed of this tradi...
Journal Article
Comparative Literature (2016) 68 (3): 351–353.
Published: 01 September 2016
..., is found to be “discon-
tinuous” (a term dear to Calvino) and tantalizingly maze-like. These oft-quoted tropes are
made concrete by a wealth of information on the specific historical, economic, and politi-
cal factors that determined the structure and organization of this extraordinary city...
Journal Article
Comparative Literature (2010) 62 (2): 189–191.
Published: 01 March 2010
..., and the manner in which translation and loss become complicit in
the act of memorialization. In exploring these issues Can These Bones Live? considers writ-
ings by Cynthia Ozick, Italo Calvino, Barbara Wilson, Philip Roth, Charles Johnson, Buchi
Emecheta, André Schwarz-Bart, Claude Morhange-Bégué, T...
Journal Article
Comparative Literature (2010) 62 (2): 191–193.
Published: 01 March 2010
... of trans-
mission as translation, and the manner in which translation and loss become complicit in
the act of memorialization. In exploring these issues Can These Bones Live? considers writ-
ings by Cynthia Ozick, Italo Calvino, Barbara Wilson, Philip Roth, Charles Johnson, Buchi
Emecheta, André...
Journal Article
Comparative Literature (2010) 62 (2): 193–195.
Published: 01 March 2010
..., and the manner in which translation and loss become complicit in
the act of memorialization. In exploring these issues Can These Bones Live? considers writ-
ings by Cynthia Ozick, Italo Calvino, Barbara Wilson, Philip Roth, Charles Johnson, Buchi
Emecheta, André Schwarz-Bart, Claude Morhange-Bégué, T...
Journal Article
Comparative Literature (2010) 62 (2): 195–197.
Published: 01 March 2010
..., and the manner in which translation and loss become complicit in
the act of memorialization. In exploring these issues Can These Bones Live? considers writ-
ings by Cynthia Ozick, Italo Calvino, Barbara Wilson, Philip Roth, Charles Johnson, Buchi
Emecheta, André Schwarz-Bart, Claude Morhange-Bégué, T...
Journal Article
Comparative Literature (2010) 62 (2): 197–199.
Published: 01 March 2010
... of trans-
mission as translation, and the manner in which translation and loss become complicit in
the act of memorialization. In exploring these issues Can These Bones Live? considers writ-
ings by Cynthia Ozick, Italo Calvino, Barbara Wilson, Philip Roth, Charles Johnson, Buchi
Emecheta, André...
Journal Article
Comparative Literature (2009) 61 (2): 142–159.
Published: 01 March 2009
.... “Mimesis and Modernism: The Case of Jorge Luis Borges.” Literary Philoso-
phers: Borges, Calvino, Eco. Ed. Jorge Gracia, Rodolphe Gasché, and Carolyn Korsmeyer. New York:
Routledge, 2002. 109–28.
Christ, Ronald J. The Narrow Act: Borges’ Art of Allusion. New York: New York UP, 1969.
de Man, Paul...
Journal Article
Comparative Literature (2007) 59 (4): 315–331.
Published: 01 September 2007
..., Howard Eiland, and Gary Smith. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1999 . Boyd, Brian. Vladimir Nabokov. The Russian Years . Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1990 . Calvino, Italo. Mondo scritto e mondo non scritto . A cura di Mario Barenghi. Milano: Oscar Mondadori, 2002 . Canetti...
Journal Article
Comparative Literature (2018) 70 (3): 337–356.
Published: 01 September 2018
..., Space . Ed. van Maas Sander . New York : Fordham UP , 2015 . 192 – 205 . Calvino Italo . “ A King Listens .” Under the Jaguar Sun . Trans. Weaver William . San Diego : Harcourt Brace Jovanovich , 1988 . 58 – 64 . Cascella Daniela . L’Abîme: Listening, Reading...
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Journal Article
Comparative Literature (2009) 61 (1): 69–84.
Published: 01 January 2009
...; see Calvino 84). Fol-
lowing the path he attributes to Giacometti, Ponge fi rst seeks in “Le galet” to strip
16 Greene describes the parva Troia episode in the Aeneid as a form of “tragic” anachronism:
Andromache’s plight is a sign “for the dominance of that Homeric past from which the Roman...
Journal Article
Comparative Literature (2020) 72 (1): 68–82.
Published: 01 March 2020
... Literature, Ethics, and Decolonization in Postwar France: The Politics of Disengagement . And Daniele Fiorettti has a lifeless detail from the famous Renaissance painting of an “Ideal City” for his Utopia and Dystopia in Postwar Italian Literature: Pasolini, Calvino, Sanguineti, Volponi . This sample...
Journal Article
Comparative Literature (2004) 56 (1): 54–76.
Published: 01 January 2004
.... Calvino, Italo. “Tradurre è il vero modo di leggere un testo.” Saggi 1945-1985 . Vol. 2 . Ed. Mario Barenghi. Milano: Mondadori, 1985 . 1825 -1831. Carpentier, Martha. “Why an Old Shoe? Teaching Jacob's Room as l'écriture féminine.” Re: Reading, Re: Writing, Re: Teaching Virginia Woolf . Eds...
Journal Article
Comparative Literature (2008) 60 (2): 107–124.
Published: 01 March 2008
... de l’OULIPO (Calvino, Perec, Marcel Duchamp, et autres,
mathématiciens et littérateurs, littérateurs-mathématiciens, et mathématiciens-littérateurs)?
5 This is not to say that interjections of humor compromise the formalism and rigor of the Oulipian
work, but rather that this mathematical...
Journal Article
Comparative Literature (2000) 52 (3): i–xx.
Published: 01 June 2000
... the less self-evident Henry James, William Burroughs, and Italo Calvino.
Her intuition of the cybernetic implications and counterparts to the literary plays
of surrogation, narration, and context is nothing less than uncanny. The articu-
late interface that she stages between cybernetics and literary...
Journal Article
Comparative Literature (2003) 55 (1): 42–56.
Published: 01 January 2003
... the essays of Baudelaire or Proust, of Hoffmannsthal or Benn, Valéry or Auden, Brodsky or
Mandelstam, Marina Tsvetayeva or Karl Kraus, Yeats or Montale, Borges or Nabokov, Manganelli,
Calvino, Canetti, Kundera, we immediately sense—even though each may have hated, or ignored,
or even opposed the other...
Journal Article
Comparative Literature (2009) 61 (3): 295–315.
Published: 01 June 2009
...); some character-
istics in the German novelist Günter Grass; the Italians Italo Calvino and Alberto Moravia (in The
Inner Life); the Frenchmen Claude Simon (Géorgiques), Ranaud Camus (and his various aliases), and
even some aspects of Georges Pérec; the Spaniards Juan Goytisolo, Miguel Espinosa...
Journal Article
Comparative Literature (2010) 62 (4): 315–335.
Published: 01 September 2010
... as it crosses borders: it is a
fundamentally different work abroad, and even in Italy it was a very different work
for Italo Calvino and Primo Levi in the twentieth century than it was for Boccac-
cio in the fourteenth. Yet the Commedia’s effects will always be shaped by the read-
er’s powerful sense...
