...Peter Smyth Abstract Italo Calvino's Castle of Crossed Destinies is unique among his later novels for failing to uphold the rules and constraints that he was increasingly fond of imposing on his works of fiction. To explain the novel's structural failure, this essay puts aside the framework...

... for Poetics and Semiotics 2012 References Barthes Roland 1977 [1964] “ Rhetoric of the Image ,” in Image—Music—Text , translated by Heath Stephen , 32 – 51 ( New York : Hill and Wang ). Calvino Italo 1969 Tarocchi: Il mazzo visconteo di Bergamo e New York ( Parma...

...Alexandre Gefen [email protected] Copyright © 2024 by Porter Institute for Poetics and Semiotics 2024  creativity large language models artificial literature References Calvino Italo . 1986 . “ Cybernetics and Ghosts .” In The Uses of Literature: Essays...

.... Bens, Jacques 1986 [1965] “ Queneau Oulipian ,” in Motte 1986: 65 -73. Burgelin, Claude 1988 Georges Perec (Paris: Seuil). Calvino, Italo 1970 “Notes toward a Definition of the Narrative Form as a Combinatory Process,” translated by Bruce Merry, Twentieth Century Studies 3 : 93 -101...

..., John 1990 I–VI (MethodStructureIntentionDisciplineNotationIndeterminacyInterpenetrationImitation DevotionCircumstanceVariableStructureNonunderstandingContingencyInconsistencyPerformance) (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press). Calvino, Italo 1981 [1979] If on a Winter's Night a Traveler...

... in this issue also finds in the metafiction of Borges (and Italo Calvino) anticipatory analogs of emergent AI storytellers. There are a number of sympathetic resonances between us that we could readily amplify if we had the space. But to remark on one: although perhaps less disconcerted than we...

... ovo) to Paul Vale´ry and Italo Calvino, countless philosophers, critics, and writers have explicitly rec- ognized its significance, and it often constitutes amemorable part of thework. After a prologue in which Buch Leander specifies the principal objective of his study, stresses that the literary...

... Chekov and Jorge Luis Borges to John Donne and Oscar Wilde, Taylor Swift lyrics and Economist articles to Sex and the City and MTV Daria scripts. 1 As in Italo Calvino's If on a Winter's Night a Traveler , whose Japanese counterfeiter spins out fakes, our lab spun out reams of writing...

... of the film, we do in fact get a changed past and new, radically different lives for the characters. 10 Italo Calvino ([ 1967 ] 1969) plays with the notions of difference and identity in repeated scenarios of similar events. In his story, “t zero,” the protagonist, like Nietzsche, imagines...

..., Vannevar 1945 “As We May Think,” Atlantic Monthly (July), www.theatlantic.com/doc/194507/bush . Calvino, Italo 1981 [1979] If on a Winter's Night a Traveler , translated by William Weaver (New York: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich). Casanova, Pascale 2004 The World Republic of Letters...

... . Bayley John 1984 “Kundera and Kitsch,” London Review of Books , June 7 , 18 – 19 . Calvino Italo 1990 “On Kundera,” Review of Contemporary Fiction 9 ( 2 ): 53 – 57 . Cattrysse Patrick 1997 “The Unbearable Lightness of Being: Film Adaptation Seen from...

... to face with something, rather than nothing, as one finds in Italo Calvino’s The Castle of Crossed Destinies, where the characters each take a turn at narrating, assisted by the images on tarot cards. Before reaching that point, under the duress of a difficult trip and a great peril, they have...

... . 2007 . “ What Is Typography? ” Typotheque , May 13 . www.typotheque.com/articles/what_is_typography . Bingham Millicent T. 1949 . “ Emily Dickinson’s Handwriting: A Master Key .” New England Quarterly 22 , no. 2 : 229 – 34 . Calvino Italo . 1981 . If on a Winter’s...

... Lionnais; “Mathematics in the Method of Raymond Queneau” by Jacques Roubaud; and pieces by Georges Perec, Italo Calvino, Harry Mathews, and Raymond Queneau), a glossary of terms, an extensive bibliography, and short biographies of Oulipians. An indispensable work. 1999 “Marcel Bénabou...

..., the synthetic component is foregrounded, subsumes the other two functions, or temporarily enjoys a dominant position. Consequently, the metafictional function can call attention to the author's performance. The prototypical case in this respect is Italo Calvino's novel If on a Winter's Night a Traveller...

... ). Cadoux A. T. 1931 The Parables of Jesus, Their Art and Use ( London : James Clarke ). Calder John 2001 The Philosophy of Samuel Beckett ( Edison, NJ : Riverrun ). Cǎlinescu Matei 1993 Rereading ( New Haven, CT : Yale University Press ). Calvino Italo 1982...

... fiction as a conversation between real authors and real readers. Her case studies include Italo Calvino's If on a Winter's Night a Traveler , Gertrud Kolmar's Jewish Mother , and Camus's Fall . (3) In 2014 Susan S. Lanser extends the application of the concept and term narratee by proposing...

... as novelists, including Roussel, Walter Abish, and OuLiPians such as Raymond Que- neau, Georges Perec, Italo Calvino, Jacques Roubaud, and Mathews him- self. Other practitioners (e.g., Mac Low, members of the Language school...

..., U.K.: Penguin). Calvino, Italo 1986 The Uses of Literature , translated by Patrick Creagh (San Diego, CA: Harvest). Carroll, Lewis 1979 The Letters of Lewis Carroll , edited by Morton N. Cohen, 2 vols. (New York: Oxford University Press). Castañeda, Hector-Neir 1967 “Omniscience...

... `` The Narrative Construction of Reality ,'' Critical Inquiry 18 : 1 – 21 . 2004 `` Life as Narrative ,'' Social Research 71 : 691 – 710 . Burke Kenneth . 1969 [1945] The Rhetoric of Motives ( Berkeley : University of California Press ). Calvino Italo 1988 Six Memos...