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Italo Calvino and the Compass of Literature
Language: en
Pages: 268
Authors: Eugenio Bolongaro
Categories: Literary Criticism
Type: BOOK - Published: 2003-01-01 - Publisher: University of Toronto Press

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Looking at five of Italo Calvino's often neglected early novels: The Young People of Po, The Cloven Viscount, The Baron in the Trees, The Non-Existent Knight, a
The Uses of Literature
Language: en
Pages: 352
Authors: Italo Calvino
Categories: Literary Criticism
Type: BOOK - Published: 1986 - Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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In these widely praised essays, Calvino reflects on literature as process, the great narrative game in the course of which writer and reader are challenged to u
Understanding Italo Calvino
Language: en
Pages: 260
Authors: Beno Weiss
Categories: Literary Criticism
Type: BOOK - Published: 1993 - Publisher: Univ of South Carolina Press

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Highlights Calvino's fascination with folk tales, knights, social & political allegories, & science fiction.
The Mind of Italo Calvino
Language: en
Pages: 210
Authors: Dani Cavallaro
Categories: Literary Criticism
Type: BOOK - Published: 2010-03-10 - Publisher: McFarland

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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 rema
Why Read the Classics?
Language: en
Pages: 291
Authors: Italo Calvino
Categories: Literary Collections
Type: BOOK - Published: 2014-12-16 - Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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A posthumously published collection of thirty-six essays offering Italo Calvino's invigorating and illuminating analysis of his most treasured literary classics